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Re: "autoinstall" with debian

> IE, I'm needing to install (under /a) some packages that have
> interactive postconfiguration, and I need to do this all
> noninteractively.  Barring getting a non-interactive postconfig for
> every package (my preference, but not necessarily realistic in
> a shortish time frame) I'd like to just --extract these, configure them
> with a locally-provided script, and "do the magic" to tell debian the
> packages have been configured.  What is "that magic"?

Something that might be worth considering is to use the same approach as the SVR4 package system.

What happens is that there is only one script per package that is allowed to interact with the user, and it puts all the users selections in a file that is then used by all other scripts to allow them to be non-interactive.  The response file is also saved with the other package info files.

It is a little more effort initially because you have to separate the interactive parts from the scripts that actually do the work, but has several advantages:

  o  You can prepare a set of response files in advance (e.g. by using the ones
     from a previous install) and do a non-interactive clone install easily

  o  When upgrading, the options used for installing the previous version can
     be used as this one's defaults

  o  When removing packages, the options selected at installation can be used
     to help decide what needs to be done.

The trouble is that any change like this would require every package to be changed in order to be worthwhile.

Cheers, Phil.



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