On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:48:48PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > > ucf still has the same fundamental problem with regard to > > preconfiguration, which was the primary issue that I raised in my > > original message. The consensus, as I recall, was that preconfiguration > > is important, and that prompting in postinst should be minimized. > > I may have missed something but why can't the changed/merged configuration > files be saved somewhere in preinstall phase and the current "live" > configs be overwritten only in the postinstall phase by dpkg or postinst > scripts if the rest of the installation went well?
Again: see my first message and followups for a specific, concrete example of why this won't work. -- - mdz
