Fwd: rpm packaging: package configuration

[Evandro Giovanini]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
>

AFAIK it's also possible to setup apt/dpkg to be completely automated.

Evandro