debconf

[Ingo Wichmann]

Michael Tautschnig wrote:

>> Ok, this is at best tangential on this list...  anyway: anybody has already 
>> written the script to extract all non-default debconf values from a 
>> system's debconf database?  I don't want to preseed the fai installations 
>> with all default values - and looking through the database of my (manually 
>> set up reference workstation) manually, trying to filter out all the 
>> default entries is sorta tedious...
>>
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is possible at all!? One could possibly extract some
> of the defaults from /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat, but probably not all of
> the entries contain defaults.
> 
> Does somebody know of any other means to obtain the defaults?

I once hacked /usr/bin/debconf-get-selections from the package 
debconf-utils to get these entries, but i don't have the modified 
version anymore ... OK, i've attached a version which may do what you 
want ... i did not test it.

Ingo

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