salt.states.debconfmod¶

Management of debconf selections¶

depends:	debconf-utils package

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}

Note

Due to how PyYAML imports nested dicts (see here), the values in the data dict must be indented four spaces instead of two.

salt.states.debconfmod.set(name, data, **kwargs)¶

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, template=None, context=None, defaults=None, **kwargs)¶

Set debconf selections from a file or a template

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

<state_id>:
  debconf.set_file:
    - source: salt://pathto/pkg.selections?saltenv=myenvironment

<state_id>:
  debconf.set_file:
    - source: salt://pathto/pkg.selections.jinja2
    - template: jinja
    - context:
        some_value: "false"

source:: The location of the file containing the package selections
template: If this setting is applied then the named templating engine will be used to render the package selections file, currently jinja, mako, and wempy are supported
context: Overrides default context variables passed to the template.
defaults: Default context passed to the template.