On Saturday 06 January 2001 21:19, Tibor D. wrote: > I like it that by now you can set up lilo with debconf, thats a good > idea, it's now possible to set lilo up very fast. But: would it be > possible to leave lilo.conf's original "look and feel"? I mean like when > you install exim, you can config it with debconf, but the exim.conf > looks like the original file with all comments in it, so it is easy to > configure it with some editor afterwards when you need some more > sophisticated configuration. Unset config-lines stay just commented.
I'll put some comments in once I have the basic functionality working. BTW There's a new version available for testing at http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ , it should solve most of the issues that have been discussed. There is one bug in the 21.6-3 package, that is that installation will fail if you have debconf set to not display high priority messages (IE display only critical). I think that I have a solution for this but I'll have to do it tomorrow. > Could you imagin squid.conf without any comments and example-lines? The Incidentally I have recently submitted a proposal for debconf'ing Squid. I've forward it to debian-user a few minutes ago. > best would be, if your install-script could read the original > lilo.conflines and present that entries in debconf as "default values". > I think that's *the* greate thing in debian, that one can change the > original config-files without having fear that some tools will overwrite > it (thats why I changed from suse to debian. So I could learn much more > about linux than just living with the "yast"). > And the problem with overwriting the old configfile isn't very nice, > just 1 lilo.conf.old isn't enough, maybe a first possibility would be > with "logrotate"? Logrotate is a good idea. I'll do it tomorrow. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
