[Wolves] Software management on networks

David Goodwin dg at clocksoft.com
Wed Nov 16 15:13:38 GMT 2005


> OK, I can see that. Next question: what happens about packages where
> you don't want the config to be the default? Do you have to unpack the
> debs and rebuild them with preconfigured answers to the debconf
> questions?
> 

Yes...... but you can hack debconf (/etc/debconf.conf) to have another 
config db in it; then your update script can fetch new "answers" to 
questions it may not yet have seen before trying to install new packages.

David.

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