On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:35:29PM -0500, John Paul Lorenti wrote: > What happens to questions that need answering, though, such as whether > to update a conf file and such?
"update a conffile" is handled normally by dpkg, not apt. (There now seem to be a few packages (tetex being one of them) which use "ucf", which asks questions about conffiles from the maintainer scripts.) to make dpkg conffile handling non-interactive, use a /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg containing force-confold this does almost always the right thing (means: keep old config if user-modified). > I know apt remembers previous answers > and can be setup to not ask again, but you may need to change your what you are talking about now is debconf. > answers or answer questions for new packages. It would be great to be > able to answer them on one machine in a group of identically configured > machines and then copy those answers over for use on the rest of the > machines. cheap method: use the debconf ldap backend. correct method: don't use debconf, keep complete configuration files in $FAI/files/ I started to write a fai-do-debconf script but put it on hold because I have no immediate need for it (I keep complete conffiles in $FAI/files/, so I always know what is configured how on our computers. Debconf-autogenerated conffils tend to change from time to time...) -- c u henning
