On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:24:37PM +0100, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > > I'm no expert Scott, but I reckon there's probably away to instruct > dpkg to bypass the pre-inst(allation) scripts. It's during the > execution of these scripts that most of these questions are asked for > the purposes of creating config files. If you can put the config > files in place by some other method you might be able to automate the > install by bypassing the pre-inst scripts. I'm only guessing mind > you, but it might be an angle to explore. > This could be dangerous, as some packages generate additional files and whatnot during post-inst. The information gathered during pre-inst is usually relevant there. I am not sure if they all have sane defaults in the absence of the pre-inst input. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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