Fwd: rpm packaging: package configuration

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:57:03AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> I create a new package.
> At install, we need to ask for some quesitons to the user to
> preconfigure the application.

As others have said, this is a bad idea and not permitted for Fedora.
Personally I think it's a misfeature of apt/dpkg that updates are not
completely automated by default.

Nevertheless, it *is* possible to write an RPM which asks questions
during the %post script, and in fact I have used RPMs which did this
in the past (a bit of proprietary software where installation required
a license key to be entered on the keyboard as part of the EULA).

Rich.

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