Author: aitor_czr Date: To: Rainer Weikusat, Edward Bartolo, dng Subject: Re: [DNG] netman-autostart_0.1.1
Hi Rainer and Edward,
On 12/24/2015 12:33 PM, 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').
Done :)
I will push it to gitlab tonight. I used debconf for that.