>>>>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:26:32 +0200, "VALETTE Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>>> It should be possible to do
>>>
>>> dpkg -i pkg.deb <<EOF value1 value2 ... valuen EOF
>>>
>> No it should not, that is completely the wrong way to do
>> it. That is just a hack to work around debconf not working
>> properly for you or packages not using it yet.
> I disagree. Debconf will never be able to answer anything that I
> want and that is not default. If debconf is able to handle
> default value correctly, I will then need to use
> dpkg-reconfigure to change the default value. I want to make it
> non interactively. Other solution is to not install the packages
> that need special configuration and install them using dpkg -i
> and a way tio give the values I want.
> And if you look at the fai software
>
<http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/ch-instprocess.html#s-icscripts>
> They have faced excatly the same problem meaning they have also
> found no solution. I think we should have dpkg-reconfigure (or
> dpkg or whatever) be able to overide default pacakge installtion
> value from a file.
The best solution would be that all postinst scripts use debconf. The
We do not need this dirty trick.
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Thomas
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