Author: Rainer Weikusat Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] netman-autostart_0.1.1
aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> writes: > On 12/23/2015 01:00 PM, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As suggested around a weeka ago, I am opting to include another netman
>> package whose purpose will be to configure netman so that it
>> autostarts and autoconnect. This will obvioulsy depend on netman-gui.
>>
>> I think, to configure netman so that it starts automatically and
>> attempts to connect to wifi automatically I will need to use the
>> postinst and the postfm script files. This package will only contain
>> those scripts and nothing else.
>>
>> Edward
>
> I think there is no need for another package. As Rainer explained, we
> can't use the terminal for that, because it doesn't comply the Debian
> policy. So, i suppose that using widgets is the only solution.
It's possible to handle this via debconf "just like other packages"
(which implies that dpkg-reconfigure will work). Documentation for using
that is in the debconf-doc package, debconf-devel(7) ('man 7
debconf-devel').