Re: Found a possible bug, but not sure of the package

[Léonard Wauters <lwauters@ipnotic-telecom.fr>]

Hello,

In the apt-get manpage, it is specified that setting the -y option makes 
apt-get to run in non-interactive mode.
It seems that it is not enough for ucf to work well in non-interactive mode.

Do you think I have to open a bug for the ucf package or not ?

Léo.

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:27:55PM +0100, Léonard Wauters wrote:
>  
>
> > Seems that ucf tries to read from /dev/tty even when not run from a
> > terminal. In fact, line 791, /dev/tty is read by the script, however, it
> > seems to me that this special device doesn't exists when there is no
> > terminal.
> >
> > We use udev to manage /dev/*.
> > Our release is Debian Sarge 3.1.
> > The system is actually run on a Pentium 4 3GHz.
> >
> > It's the first time that apt-get asks for questions when run by cron-apt 
> > on our systems.
> >
> > Is it a "bug" of ucf, or a configuration problem ?
> >
> >    
> I think not.  Your default configuration mode is probably set to either
> dialog or interactive.  This assumes that you will always be running
> from a terminal.  I think if you reconfigure debconf and/or ucf with
> priority low, it will ask you the quesion again and you can choose a
> non-interactive mode.  Alternatively, there may a be a command-line
> option you can pass along to apt-get in the cron-apt config that will
> accomplish the same thing.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
>  


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