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#language en ["DebianEvents"] > DebConf ---- ||<tablestyle="width:65%;margin-left:35%;padding-left:30pt" style="border:1pt solid #b48;border-left:5pt solid #d4a">'''disambiguation :''' This page is about ''Debian Conferences''.[[BR]] For ''Debian configuration management system'', see ["debconf"].|| Debian Conference is a yearly Debian conference has been organized under the name DebConf. |
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| ''A yearly Debian conference has been organized under the name DebConf. The next one, DebConf8, is currently in the planning phase. See http://wiki.debconf.org for more information about the conferences.'' -------------- DebianPackage debconf is, to put it simply, "Install Shield Wizards Done Right," and is one of the main advantages of DebianVsOtherDistros. There is no debconf executable program. The name 'debconf' simply refers to the package configuration system as a whole. |
||The next one, !DebConf8, is currently in the planning phase. Visit [http://debconf8.debconf.org/] (and [http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8]) for more information about the conferences. ||<style="background-color:#444" >[http://www.debconf.org/images/bg_logo.png]|| |
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| More specifically, when installing (or upgrading) any single package or a group of packages, debconf asks the packages' configuration questions all at once, and stores the user/admin preferences in a database. Later as the packages are installing, their scripts use the configuration preferences in the database to generate configuration files and otherwise do adimnistrative tasks (''e.g.'' set up servers to start or not start, install other software such as libdvdcss, etc.). This saves the hassle of editing configuration files by hand, and also of waiting for each individual package to install before responding to certain configuration questions. | == Related links == * !DebConf website : https://www.debconf.org/ * All Debian Upcoming Events : http://www.debian.org/events/ |
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| To run it, type in a ["Console"]: {{{ dpkg-reconfigure debconf }}} |
== All DebConfs == 2008 :: ["DebConf8"] August (?) Mar del Plata, Argentina ('''upcoming''') 2007 :: ["DebConf7"] June 17-23 Edinburgh, Scotland 2006 :: ["DebConf6"] May 14-22 Oaxtepec, Mexico 2005 :: ["DebConf5"] July 10-17 Helsinki, Finland 2004 :: ["DebConf4"] May 26-June 2 Porto Alegre, Brazil 2003 :: ["DebConf3"] July 18-20 Oslo, Norway 2002 :: ["DebConf2"] July 5-7 Toronto, Canada 2001 :: ["DebConf1"] July 2-5 Bordeaux, France 2000 :: ["DebConf0"] July 5-9 Bordeaux, France |
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| === Behavior === The User/Administrator (["root"]) can configure the following aspects of debconf behavior : |
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| * Ask again: debconf by default does not re-ask old configuration questions during upgrade of a package, instead it uses old answers to generate new versions of configuration files, providing seamless upgrade capability. But this behavior can be changed so such questions are always asked (with old answers provided as defaults). * FrontEnd: debconf can ask its questions using interfaces from plain text to Dialog (default) to GNOME control applet. * Priority: all questions are assigned priority levels, either low, medium, high or critical, and the user/admin can decide below what priority level (s)he would like debconf to use the default configuration answer without asking (default medium). In the same way, you can configure debconf-enabled packages by typing ["dpkg"]-reconfigure] {{{packagename}}} and answering configuration questions. See: [http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=debconf DebConf Package]. ---- === Future Plans === In the future debconf is pictured to be an even more flexible and easy to use and maintain configuration management system by using the formidable config4gnu ConfigurationHandling functionality. * http://freedesktop.org/Software/CFG Unfortunately ["config4gnu"] is not yet ready for use in Debian. But when it becomes mature, its planned features of extending configuration management flexibility beyond that of debconf and harmonizing configuration management with other distributions should make it well worth adoption in Debian. A couple of interested people would need to team up to get CFG going, in the meantime, debconf remains a stable production-ready uniform front-end for configuring nearly 8000 Debian packages. |
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["DebianEvents"] > DebConf
disambiguation : This page is about Debian Conferences.?BR For Debian configuration management system, see ["debconf"]. |
Debian Conference is a yearly Debian conference has been organized under the name DebConf.
The next one, DebConf8, is currently in the planning phase. Visit [http://debconf8.debconf.org/] (and [http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8]) for more information about the conferences. |
Related links
DebConf website : https://www.debconf.org/
All Debian Upcoming Events : http://www.debian.org/events/
All DebConfs
- 2008
["DebConf8"] August (?) Mar del Plata, Argentina (upcoming)
- 2007
["DebConf7"] June 17-23 Edinburgh, Scotland
- 2006
["DebConf6"] May 14-22 Oaxtepec, Mexico
- 2005
["DebConf5"] July 10-17 Helsinki, Finland
- 2004
["DebConf4"] May 26-June 2 Porto Alegre, Brazil
- 2003
["DebConf3"] July 18-20 Oslo, Norway
- 2002
["DebConf2"] July 5-7 Toronto, Canada
- 2001
["DebConf1"] July 2-5 Bordeaux, France
- 2000
["DebConf0"] July 5-9 Bordeaux, France