On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
