Kickstart support info

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Apr 12 07:42:20 CDT 2005


On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:41:14AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:57:59PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > No generic way, since packages generally don't ask debconf questions of
> > the form "may I set this package up so that it actually works". :-) I
> > don't think xserver-xorg will overwrite an existing customised
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf, though.
> 
> Actually, it will in two scenarios:
> 	* this is the first installation, or
> 	* we were called through dpkg-reconfigure.
> 
> In that case, it will back up and overwrite any customised configuration
> file, on the grounds that the user probably wants xorg to work.

Oh. In that case, Marc, you'll probably have to sort it out in a command
called from base-config/late_command.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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