Debconf manual

What qualifies as a "DebConf Manual" page? In some ways, any page on this wiki could be one. We should start out with pages of specific processes which were followed in the past. Most planning pages aren't followed exactly, so let's try to add notes to the pages linked here about "this happened/this didn't happen/this worked/this didn't work.".  · 6. Debian install-time configuration. 1. Introduction. Configuration management is quickly becoming a very important issue. Having programs which do cool stuff is great, but we need to store their configuration as well. We see more and more different configuration systems being introduced all the time, which is not very practical.  · The debconf commands are supposed to be described in man debconf-devel (look at it on your system, the online version is poorly-formatted), but db_progress isn’t mentioned there. As far as I can tell, the only description of progress-bar handling is in Debconf::ConfModule. You can see it in use in the demo www.doorway.rus: 3.

Debconf is a configuration system for Debian packages. There is a rarely-used command named debconf, documented in debconf (1) Debconf provides a consistent interface for configuring packages, allowing you to choose from several user interface frontends. It supports preconfiguring packages before they are installed, which allows large installs. The Debian debconf-devel manual says. Notice that: Like in a debian package description, a dot on its own line sets off a new paragraph. - Most text is word-wrapped, but doubly-indented text is left alone, so you can use it for lists of items, like this list. DESCRIPTION. Debconf is a configuration system for Debian packages. For a debconf overview and documentation for sysadmins, see debconf (7) (in the debconf-doc package). The debconf program runs a program under debconf's control, setting it up to talk with debconf on stdio. The program's output is expected to be debconf protocol commands, and.

The rules described here are from the Debian Policy Manual. If any rule described in this chapter is not respected, you have found a serious bug that must be fixed. When you install or upgrade a Debian package, all configuration file values are preserved. Using the debconf database as a registry is. This manual begins by explaining two new files that are added to debian packages that use debconf. Then it explains how the debconf protocol works, and points you at some libraries that will let your programs speak the protocol. Try setting DEBCONF_DEBUG to 'developer' in the environment. This makes debconf output debugging information, including the commands your scripts send to it and its responses. See the User's Manual for more information on the DEBCONF_DEBUG environment variable.