On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Niall Young wrote: > > > as one of the core methods, feeding it a pre-filled debconf database. > > I objected that I didn't see the use of debconf, and that I would prefer > defaults to be taken from debconf in this case instead of setting to an > empty string. I was replied that debconf is no registry, and that I can't > expect anything when prefilling debconf.
I'm no debconf expert, but I thought that was the point - being able to pre-set defaults and pre-fill entries which the package would take into account when being installed. Otherwise, what's the point - if we only set entries but never read them..? Maybe I'm just missing something, I'll go read the docs. Being able to seed or override debconf defaults non-interactively in FAI would be very useful. Niall Young Chime Communications Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Level 6, 263 Adelaide Terrace Ph: 08 9213 1330 / 0408 192 797 Perth, Western Australia 6000
