asterisk users - Apr 2009 - Changing menuselect values from CLI and not TUI

Hi All,

I'm in the process of writing an install script and I would like to change
some settings for the install process but I don't want the user to go into
menuselect and make the changes manually.

Is there a way to make the changes to menuselect from the CLI?

As an example, selecting the iLBC codec.
menuselect codec ilbc on

Regards
David.
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Is a drive image out of the question?

PaulH


David Klaverstyn wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I?m in the process of writing an install script and I would like to
> change some settings for the install process but I don?t want the user
> to go into menuselect and make the changes manually.
>
> Is there a way to make the changes to menuselect from the CLI?
>
> As an example, selecting the iLBC codec.
>
> menuselect codec ilbc on
>
> Regards
>
> David.
>
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Le Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:28:42 +1000, David Klaverstyn
<dave at klaverstyn.com.au> a ?crit :
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm in the process of writing an install script and I would like to
> change some settings for the install process but I don't want the
> user to go into menuselect and make the changes manually.
> 
> Is there a way to make the changes to menuselect from the CLI?
> 
> As an example, selecting the iLBC codec.
> menuselect codec ilbc on
> 
> Regards
> David.
You might try to manipulate within your script the output of
menuselect (that would be "menuseleect.makeopts" if you haven't
changed the default). It seems rather straightforward to change or
delete variables and their values.

Another posssibility is to directly modify the input tree for
menuselect; for instance, selecting by default the ilbc codec, as per
your example, could be achieved by taking out the
"<defaultenabled>no</defaultenabled>" phrase in the XML
description of
the ilbc codec option.

The choice between these two methods (and maybe others...)
probably depends on the structure of your install script, and the
frequency of the changes to the install options.

Best regards,
Laurent

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:28:42AM +1000, David Klaverstyn
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm in the process of writing an install script and I would like to
change some settings for the install process but I don't want the user to go
into menuselect and make the changes manually.
> 
> Is there a way to make the changes to menuselect from the CLI?
> 
> As an example, selecting the iLBC codec.
> menuselect codec ilbc on
On the Debian package I generally patch source files and XML SPECs to
set / reset the "defaltenable" options. 

The problem with patching the output of menuselect is that menuselect is
run on each tim you un 'make'. This is why I never bothered adding such
an option to dummy-select. 

OTOH, in dummy-select the configuration is straight-forward:

  echo enable codec_ilbc >build_tools/conf

Menuselect uses the same file as both an input and an output, and this
makes it very confusing and error-prone.

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