debconf - run a debconf-using program
debconf [options] command [args]
Debconf is a configuration system for Debian packages. For a debconf overview
and documentation for sysadmins, see
debconf(7) (in the debconf-doc
package).
The
debconf program runs a program under debconf's control, setting it up
to talk with debconf on stdio. The program's output is expected to be debconf
protocol commands, and it is expected to read result codes on stdin. See
debconf-devel(7) for details about the debconf protocol.
The command to be run under debconf must be specified in a way that will let
your PATH find it.
This command is not the usual way that debconf is used. It's more typical for
debconf to be used via
dpkg-preconfigure(8) or
dpkg-reconfigure(8).
-
-opackage, --owner=package
- Tell debconf what package the command it is running is a
part of. This is necessary to get ownership of registered questions right,
and to support unregister and purge commands properly.
-
-ftype, --frontend=type
- Select the frontend to use.
-
-pvalue, --priority=value
- Specify the minimum priority of question that will be
displayed.
- --terse
- Enables terse output mode. This affects only some
frontends.
To debug a shell script that uses debconf, you might use:
DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer debconf my-shell-prog
Or, you might use this:
debconf --frontend=readline sh -x my-shell-prog
debconf-devel(7),
debconf(7)
Joey Hess <
[email protected]>