sample on how to do debconf integration

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Holger Schurig <hs4233 at mail.mn-solutions.de> [2004.11.11.1614 +0100]:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> xserver-xfree86 xserver-xfree86/autodetect_mouse        boolean true
> xserver-xfree86 xserver-xfree86/autodetect_monitor      boolean true
> xserver-xfree86 xserver-xfree86/config/monitor/lcd      boolean false
> ---------------------------------------------------------

don't use more than one piece of whitespace. the parser does not
support it reliably.

> because task 'mirror' runs before task 'instsoft', the debconf
> should already contain the needed info for the postinst script.
> However, I'm not an expert on Debian yet, so I'm not sure if this
> is the right approach. If it is so simple, then why isn't it in
> FAI already?  :-)

it's a very new feature of debconf.

anyway, i've been doing something similar for a while now: install
packages, then run debconf-set-selections from a script, and
afterwards call dpkg-reconfigure.

> So, any comments about this?

i find my approach cleaner, since i don't "abuse" the mirror task.
however, your's is slightly more performant. in the end, they
accomplish the same.

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