Re: Large install and roll-out

[Matt Armstrong]

Adrian Phillips <a.phillips@dnmi.no> writes:

>       linux::
>               # Install some more useful packages (binutils contains strings)
>               # and upgrade others (want ssh with V2 support)
>               # - make sure sysvinit is latest woody as it has a fix for
>               #   switching from S to 2 runlevels
>               # - make sure cfengine is upgraded
>               # - and make sure apt is newer version
>               # - use netcat in place of telnet for testing network
>               # - netpipe is a network performance tool
>               "/usr/bin/apt-get -q -q -y install less emacs21 rsync man-db 
> logrotate sysstat logcheck sash binutils ssh traceroute nictools-pci dnsutils 
> ipgrab sysvinit cfengine apt netcat netpipe-tcp"
>
>               # And remove any unnecessary ones
>               # - don't encourage telnet use !!
>               # - using emacs21 now
>               "/usr/bin/apt-get -qq --purge remove telnet emacs20"

Adrian, doesn't installing a debian package sometimes involve
interactive prompting?  Or do the -q -q options take care of that even
at the dpkg/debconf level?

-- 
matt