Re: providing custom actions

[Mark Burgess]

It would make sense to do this through the packages
action.

M


On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:39:41PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> [2004.10.30.1626 +0200]:
> > Instead of reinventing the wheel, I would like to provide a bunch
> > of new actions to cfagent, like apt-install, debconf, and
> > update-alternatives.
> 
> Discussing this on IRC right now, I realise this could all be done
> in shellcommands, but it's more elegant to have actions. Plus, the
> Debian command suite is really suitable for actions, i.e. it has the
> Cfagent Action Character (tm).
> 
> E.g:
> 
> apt-install:
>   POSTFIX::
>     postfix
>     postfix-tls
>       add=suggests,recommends
>     postgrey
>       suite=unstable
> 
> update-alternatives:
>   SHELLSERVER::
>     /usr/bin/editor -> /usr/bin/emacs
> 
> debconf:
>   CVSSERVER::
>     cvs cvs/pserver true
> 
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