On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:25:04PM -0500, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
> Calling it a misfeature is a mistake. Just because you don't want to use it
> doesn't mean it shouldn't be there.
I'm perfectly capable of configuring priorities and frontends in dpkg,
thanks for your concerns. However it's n
Most Ubuntu and Debian packages, are indeed silent by default. However, the
fact that RPM's own post-install capabilities are atrocious compared to
dpkg's is completely the fault of the RPM developers and maintainers, and
has a lot to do with distro policies, in particular Fedora. It is something
t
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:57:03AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
>> I create a new package.
>> At install, we need to ask for some quesitons to the user to
>> preconfigure the application.
>
> As others have said, this is a bad idea and n
Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> Doing manual tweaking on many machines is not fun
That's when you bring out Kickstart I believe.
Björn Persson
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On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 09:40 +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newby regarding rpm packaging (more used to deb packaging).
> I want to know if there is a way to configure a package at install using
> rpmdev stuff, like debconf in Debian.
> Or do we need to create our own config script m
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:57:03AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> I create a new package.
> At install, we need to ask for some quesitons to the user to
> preconfigure the application.
As others have said, this is a bad idea and not permitted for Fedora.
Personally I think it's a misfeature of apt
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 07/13/2011 10:57 AM, Olivier Sallou wrote:
>> I create a new package.
>> At install, we need to ask for some quesitons to the user to
>> preconfigure the application.
> rpm-based installations are supposed to be non-interactive, i.e. this
On 07/13/2011 05:14 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 07/13/2011 10:57 AM, Olivier Sallou wrote:
>> This can be managed manually, but it would be nicer to get this managed
>> with packaging tools.
> rpm-based systems' philosophy is to let users configure their systems
> after package installations/upd
On 07/13/2011 10:57 AM, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> I create a new package.
> At install, we need to ask for some quesitons to the user to
> preconfigure the application.
rpm-based installations are supposed to be non-interactive, i.e. this is
not allowed.
> At upgrade, it would be nice to get alread
Da: Olivier Sallou
Inviato: 13/07/2011, 09:40
A: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Oggetto: Fwd: rpm packaging: package configuration
Hi,
I am a newby regarding rpm packaging (more used to deb packaging).
I want to know if there is a way to configure a package at install using
rpmdev stuff, like
I create a new package.
At install, we need to ask for some quesitons to the user to
preconfigure the application.
At upgrade, it would be nice to get already answered questions rather
than ask again for configuration.
This can be managed manually, but it would be nicer to get this managed
with pac
On 07/13/2011 01:10 PM, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newby regarding rpm packaging (more used to deb packaging).
> I want to know if there is a way to configure a package at install using
> rpmdev stuff, like debconf in Debian.
> Or do we need to create our own config script management?
Hi,
I am a newby regarding rpm packaging (more used to deb packaging).
I want to know if there is a way to configure a package at install using
rpmdev stuff, like debconf in Debian.
Or do we need to create our own config script management?
Thanks
Olivier
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