I have tried to automate the exim setup via puppet. I followed the approach described here, whiched worked for me for a few packages, but for exim I had a problem: one selection was not correctly applied on a fresh system.
When setting up exim or running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
, I select the smarthost option as shown in the screenshot below
Exporting the selections to a file results in the following (stripped some parts)
$ debconf-get-selections | grep exim
exim4-config exim4/dc_other_hostnames string my.other.hostname
exim4-config exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype select mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
exim4-config exim4/no_config boolean true
exim4-config exim4/hide_mailname boolean true
exim4-config exim4/dc_postmaster string
exim4-config exim4/dc_smarthost string my.smarthost.com::port
exim4-config exim4/dc_relay_domains string
exim4-config exim4/dc_relay_nets string
exim4-base exim4/purge_spool boolean false
exim4-config exim4/mailname string my.mail.name
As you can see, all options look just fine. Note that dc_eximconfig_configtype
(line 2 of the output) shows the text of the selected value from the interactive configuration.
When trying to use this export in my puppet configuration, that one parameter is not correctly applied:
package { "exim4":
responsefile => my-exported-exim4-debconf,
ensure => installed;
}
I have also tried to import the configuration via debconf-get-selections
, which I assume puppet is doing in this case on a debian environment, but it seems to be ignored without providing any indication.
Is this a known error? Do you know how I can either solve this problem with a different configuration export (e.g. provide an integer index for that parameter), or suggest an alternative of distributing the exim configuration with puppet?
Thank you
Kariem