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

Rob Browning:
> Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > If we are to do selection-time configuration then the database of
> > questions to be asked needs to be loaded before the packages are
> > actually unpacked.  This database will be quite large (some packages
> > could be expected to have tens of K of config questions, help text,
> > &c).  Even our Packages file is now 600K uncompressed.
> > 
> > I don't see how this data can easily be made available to the
> > configuration program.
> 
> Why not just have two passes over the package files.  The first grabs
> the config info, and asks the questions, and the second handles the
> normal unpacking and installing.  Someone else suggested this
> recently, and I thought it was a good idea.

This is all very well for CD and network (NFS/FTP) installation.
However, it's quite troublesome for media like tapes and floppy disks.

Do we really want to force these installation methods to make two
passes ?

> > Note that nothing I've said argues against database-based
> > configurations schemes, which are a Good Thing.
> 
> It might be nice to have something a little smarter than your average
> database.  It would be interesting to have the ability for a package
> to register scripts associated with configuration variables so that if
> someone says:
> 
>   debian-configure --set global.papersize letter
> 
> Then all the scripts that have registered themselves to be triggered
> by any change to that variable get run.

I was thinking of just having a database/configuration utility like
Lars wrote.  Adding some hooks to that probably wouldn't be too hard.

Ian.


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