debconf - Configure a .deb package¶

New in version 1.6.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Status
- Support
- Author

Synopsis ¶

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

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

debconf
debconf-utils

Parameters ¶

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

Notes ¶

Note

This module requires the command line debconf tools.
A number of questions have to be answered (depending on the package). Use ‘debconf-show <package>’ on any Debian or derivative with the package installed to see questions/settings available.
Some distros will always record tasks involving the setting of passwords as changed. This is due to debconf-get-selections masking passwords.

Examples ¶

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

- name: 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

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

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

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.

Support ¶

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author ¶

Brian Coca (@bcoca)

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