Fwd: rpm packaging: package configuration

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com
Wed Jul 13 16:05:55 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On 07/13/2011 10:57 AM, Olivier Sallou wrote:
>> I create a new package.
>> At install, we need to ask for some quesitons to the user to
>> preconfigure the application.
> rpm-based installations are supposed to be non-interactive, i.e. this is
> not allowed.

If a package has this sort of thing, it will be separate from RPM or
yum. See MySQL's mysql_secure_installation script for an example.


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