apt-get install questions

[Andrew Pollock]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:37:38PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 15:07, Rene Cunningham wrote:
> > FAI is working great, except for one major problem. When apt-getting
> > stuff during the install process, packages that require user's answering
> > certain questions (such as sendmail) are half installed. This requires
> > the user to apt-get install sendmail, to reconfigure the package, which
> > then goes and installs all the dependencies.
> > Is there anyway around this, or have i configured FAI wrong?
> 
> Don't know if this is how it is normally done, but there is
> information on the debconf(7) man page (perhaps only recent debconf
> packages) about how to pre-feed DebConf questions so that packages may
> be configured automatically at installation time.

Unfortunately Sendmail doesn't use Debconf. Sendmail is historically one 
of the annoying packages to install via FAI. Search the mailing list 
archives, this question has been asked in the past.

Andrew