Re: Automating DebConf answers

2004-12-22 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:55:40AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > IIRC I think there is something about this on wiki.debian.net under > 'pre-seeding'? For now I am going to just use the NONINTERACTIVE frontend with various assume-yes parameter to apt, and go back and run dpkg-reconfigure on individual

Re: Automating DebConf answers

2004-12-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:12:18PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I'm aware that a "text" frontend for DebConf is available, where one can > simply provide keystrokes to DebConf on stdin. > > Is there a frontend that informs me "which" package is being configured, > and lets me decide what answ

Re: Automating DebConf answers

2004-12-21 Thread Pau Capdevila
You must answer the questions once in a machine. In theory with debconf-getselections you can extract that answers ant seed them to every host with debconf-setselections. They'll be marked as seen and thus they will not be asked again. I haven't tried it yet. Tell me if that works On Mon, 20 De