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It's worth noting that Fedora/RHEL's postinstall is generally less intrusive than Debain's, though. For instance it doesn't just automatically create databases
by oshiar53-0 5y ago
It's worth noting that Fedora/RHEL's postinstall is generally less intrusive than Debain's, though.
For instance it doesn't just automatically create databases or starts/enables services.
- marcosdumay 5y agoPeople expect `apt install package` to leave the package installed and running. That expectation does change from one distro to another. Slackware was one that wouldn't even create a start script for a deamon.
- chousuke 5y agoDebian also has debconf, which attempts to be a universal configuration management system, so it'll generate and re-generate configuration files from templates. Unfortunately, in my experience it gets in my way more often than it helps since I usually have separate automation that configures the software anyway. I use Debian-based systems pretty rarely, so I still haven't figured out how you actually make dpkg regenerate your configuration files properly if you use automation to change a debconf selection and need to reconfigure a package. dpkg-reconfigure seems not to do what I want and just restores the previous value (or prompts interactively, which is not useful) for some reason.