debconf - Configure a .deb package

• Synopsis
• Requirements (on host that executes module)
• Options
• Examples
• Notes
  • Status
  • Maintenance Info

Synopsis

• Configure a .deb package using debconf-set-selections. Or just query existing selections.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

• debconf
• debconf-utils

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
name	yes			Name of package to configure. aliases: pkg
question	no			A debconf configuration setting aliases: setting, selection
unseen	no			Do not set 'seen' flag when pre-seeding
value	no			Value to set the configuration to aliases: answer
vtype	no		string password boolean select multiselect note error title text seen	The type of the value supplied. seen was added in 2.2.

Examples

# Set default locale to fr_FR.UTF-8
- debconf:
    name: locales
    question: locales/default_environment_locale
    value: fr_FR.UTF-8
    vtype: select

# set to generate locales:
- debconf:
    name: locales
    question: locales/locales_to_be_generated
    value: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
    vtype: multiselect

# Accept oracle license
- debconf:
    name: oracle-java7-installer
    question: shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1
    value: true
    vtype: select

# Specifying package you can register/return the list of questions and current values
- debconf:
    name: tzdata

Notes

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Maintenance Info

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