Hi Rainer,

Incidentally, the scripts I used in netman-autostart are the same as
the ones debconf-dev talks about. However, I will drop
netman-autostart to develop netman as suggested above. Hopefully, I am
up to the task expected.

Edward



On 23/12/2015, Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
> 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').
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