salt.states.debconfmod

Management of debconf selections.

The debconfmod state module manages the enforcement of debconf selections, this state can set those selections prior to package installation.

Available Functions

The debconfmod state has two functions, the set and set_file functions

set

Set debconf selections from the state itself

set_file

Set debconf selections from a file

nullmailer-debconf:
  debconf.set:
    - name: nullmailer
    - data:
        'shared/mailname': {'type': 'string', 'value': 'server.domain.tld'}
        'nullmailer/relayhost': {'type': 'string', 'value': 'mail.domain.tld'}
ferm-debconf:
  debconf.set:
    - name: ferm
    - data:
        'ferm/enable': {'type': 'boolean', 'value': True}

salt.states.debconfmod.set(name, data)

Set debconf selections

<state_id>:
  debconf.set:
    - name: <name>
    - data:
        <question>: {'type': <type>, 'value': <value>}
        <question>: {'type': <type>, 'value': <value>}

<state_id>:
  debconf.set:
    - name: <name>
    - data:
        <question>: {'type': <type>, 'value': <value>}
        <question>: {'type': <type>, 'value': <value>}

name:

The package name to set answers for.

data:

A set of questions/answers for debconf. Note that everything under this must be indented twice.

question:

The question the is being pre-answered

type:

The type of question that is being asked (string, boolean, select, etc.)

value:

The answer to the question

salt.states.debconfmod.set_file(name, source)

Set debconf selections from a file

<state_id>:
  debconf.set_file:
    - source: salt://pathto/pkg.selections

source:

The location of the file containing the package selections