Re: mass-installing Debian
Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@zetnet.co.uk> writes:
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:06:48PM -0400, tony mancill wrote:
> [snip]
> > On a related note, couldn't we have an environment variable set at
> > installation time, e.g. "NON_INTERACTIVE_DPKG=TRUE", and have the
> > maintainer scripts check this to see if they should ask questions or not?
> > If this variable were set to TRUE, I'd like to see packages which require
> > configuration send mail to root with a message like:
>
> Somone a while ago suggested allowing the user to automatically answer all
> of the "overwrite existing file? [N/y]" that dpkg asks when the config file
> changes in the packge. Just getting rid of these messages would get rid of
> quite a few.
>
> Personally I _always_ keep the current one. Then every now and again I go
> through /etc and merge in any changes.
Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed
between the packages config file and what the difference to your
config is?
I allways wonder what has changed, since I normally haven't changed
those files dpkg askes me about.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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