>> Another possibility would be to have a script that runs immediately when >> you select the package using "dselect", before the package is unpacked, and >> squirrels away your input for later. Of course, we'd have to run it from >> "dpkg" if "dselect" was not used. >> >> Discussion, please? > >I'd like some (easy) way of storing answers to questions. The >questions and answers could be shared between packages, when >suitable. One such question would be whether the local admin >wants to allow creation of the empty directories in /usr/local.
Also, if done in a careful manner, this 'answer' database could be moved to another machine to help automate it's customization. -- Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta