Ryan White wrote:
> Is there some way that debconf can have a man page explaining how to
> configure it?
Debconf contains 5 man pages (not counting the other 51 man pages that are
too esoteric to bother including in the binary package), plus about 2.8
thousand additional lines of documentation, including a user-level tutorial.
75% of debconf's size is documentation.
Debconf tells you about the dpkg-reconfigure program when it is installed.
Reconfiguring debconf is also documented in detail in the user tutorial and
the dpkg-reconfigure man page. For example:
Reconfiguring a package
One of the first things you will probably want to use debconf for is to
reconfigure a package. You installed the package, and answered debconf's
questions, but now that you've used it a while, you realize you want to
go back and change some of your answers. In the past, reinstalling a
package was often the thing to do when you got in this situation, but
when you reinstall the package, debconf seem to remember you have
answered the questions, and doesn't ask them again.
Luckily, debconf makes it easy to reconfigure any package that uses it.
Say you want to reconfigure debconf itself. Just run, as root:
dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf
This will ask all the questions you saw when debconf was first installed.
You can use it on any other package that uses debconf, as well.
I don't really see what more I can do. I have added a pointer to the
usersguide to the main README file to ensure that people notice it.
> I also was under the impression that EVERY package in debian
> has a man page (even that one that says "the program has no man page").
There is no program named "debconf", so I don't see why I should have a man
page by that name.
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