Script Yast Like Menu/Submenu + database

pujansrt · 10-07-2006, 01:19 AM

Friends

I would like to make yast like Menu in Shell Script, which could also use data repository.My problems are
1)how to make Sub-menu from Menu (as like yast)
2)how to use database (as like yast)

Does anyone suggest basic guidlines for these...
Thanks

Mara · 10-08-2006, 01:13 PM

Do you mean a graphical or text mode menu?

pujansrt · 10-08-2006, 11:18 PM

Hi,

I mean, "text based Yast"

paulsm4 · 10-08-2006, 11:25 PM

1. Use ncurses for the text mode user interface

2. Find a database that's appropriate for your needs and learn how to use it (this could include everything from writing your own flat file, using mysql or tapping into the RPM database that Yast2 uses)

3. The "submenus" would be invoked by your program (quite likely, a C program).