]] Jonas Smedegaard > How to reconfigure one package from another?
I don't think this is supported today at all, and any success at doing so would be a bug. If you have a package that uses debconf as the UI to ask questions that go into a configuration file, that's fine. If you then later change the values in the debconf database and run dpkg-reconfigure, the config script should grab the current settings from the configuration file on disk and seed the debconf db with those, overwriting your changes. This is the whole «debconf is not a registry» thing. What you could do is provide your own debconf database with a higher priority, with those settings then pre-seeded (you would then accept and discard writes to «locked» keys). This makes the problem slightly easier, since you're then just left with «how do you trigger a dpkg-reconfigure». Sadly, I don't think dpkg provides the hooks you need to do that today. I think it could be useful to have it, so you could do «dpkg --needs-reconfigure A B C» and those would then be put in a state where they'd be reconfigured at the next opportunity. Care would of course have to be taken to avoid loops. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87sip9y8hz....@vuizook.err.no