Raul Miller wrote: >> >I would like to see a way to preemptively indicate that the >> >data should not be deleted. In a busy environment with several >> >sysadmins, you want to be able to make such decisions ahead of >> >time. > >Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote: >> This seems a good idea, but it implies a whole new utility whose job >> is to service interactive requests from dpkg scripts. > >Does it? > >I thought it only implied one bit of configuration information somewhere >under /etc/.
Yes, but this is a particular case of the general problem of interactive installation scripts. Furthermore, this particular case is one that is a bit extreme: on installing a database package, you decide what you will do with as yet non-existent data in the event that you one day decide to purge the package. If I don't ask the question at installation time, how is this busy sysadmin to know, or at least, remember, that this particular package contains a utility to preset the answer to the question that will in any case be asked by the postrm script? If all packages use a similar mechanism, he at least has a chance... -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ======================================== "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." I Corinthians 2:9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
