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I need to install postfix on a a debian system with puppet. Unfortunately there are a lot of prompts. One way to deal with this is, is: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Debian_Preseed_Patterns. Another way (apparently) is to give an answerfile in the package resource declaration. (I have no idea how to do this) e.g.: echo postfix postfix/main_mailer_type        select  No configuration | debconf-set-selections apt-get install -y postfix However, I''d just like to deal with th...

Hi All, I''m trying use use puppet in masterless mode to automate the setup of an RT4 server. I''ve used the example preseed define from http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Debian_Preseed_Patterns. I set up RT4 manually, dumped the debconf keys into a preseed file, rolled back the VM snapshot and tried to apply the manifest. The apply failed with a bunch of errors from debconf-set-selections about missing questions from the debconf db. Which suggested to me that the debconf-set-selectio...