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Re: Selection-time configuration, delayed configuration, &c

I wrote a small wrapper around dpkg called adpkg and I could put that
proposed functionality into it.

adpkg would make a first pass,  extract configure scripts from the .deb
file, run them and then make a second pass installing those packages
using dpkg -i ....

I dont know how to put the configure scripts into the .deb package but I
guess simply putting a file with the name

configure

into debian/tmp/DEBIAN would do?

On 30 Nov 1999, Rob Browning wrote:

osiris >Why not just have two passes over the package files.  The first grabs
osiris >the config info, and asks the questions, and the second handles the
osiris >normal unpacking and installing.  Someone else suggested this
osiris >recently, and I thought it was a good idea.
osiris >
osiris >> Note that nothing I've said argues against database-based
osiris >> configurations schemes, which are a Good Thing.
osiris >
osiris >It might be nice to have something a little smarter than your average
osiris >database.  It would be interesting to have the ability for a package
osiris >to register scripts associated with configuration variables so that if
osiris >someone says:
osiris >
osiris >  debian-configure --set global.papersize letter
osiris >
osiris >Then all the scripts that have registered themselves to be triggered
osiris >by any change to that variable get run.

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