Hello,
I would like to create a debian package for a simple project that I've
created. The project contains only scripts, so there is no makefile or
anything like that. For the script to work I would like to prompt for some
simple questions like "what url should be used", "what organisation does
this computer belong to".
I've created a postinst script that asks these questions and writes them in
a configuration file. (and this configuration file is listed in conffiles)
Now the problem that I have is that when I reinstall this package, or
upgrade it, all the questions are asked again.
After some research I'm still not able to find a simple example or howto to
do this right.
- Is it necessary to use debconf to accomplish this?
- I thought that the postinst script was called with an argument
install/upgrade/configure and so I could ask my question only when it was
and install or configure, but this doesnt work. apperantly upgrading a
package also uses argument configure...
I've tried to look at packages like postfix, to see how they do it, but
those are to difficult for my simple scripting skills :-(
Regards,
Luke