Bug#205265: marked as done (base-config: Make it possible to install packages noninteractively)
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Subject: base-config: Make it possible to install packages noninteractively
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Package: base-config
Version: 1.67
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Here is a patch to make sure DEBIAN_FRONTEND is set to the current
debconf frontend when calling apt-get dselect-upgrade in 75apt-get, to
make sure non-interactive mode is passed on to the packages only
accepting the environment variable. This make it easier to do
automatic installation.
I'm not sure if the use of debconf-communicate is the best way to
fetch the current frontend, but was unable to come up with a better
way to do it.
Index: lib/75apt-get
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/base-config/lib/75apt-get,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.11 75apt-get
--- lib/75apt-get 18 Apr 2003 17:38:45 -0000 1.11
+++ lib/75apt-get 13 Aug 2003 18:23:53 -0000
@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@
if [ "$1" != retry ]; then
# Make dpkg not background itself to get a shell.
export DPKG_NO_TSTP="yes"
+
+ # Some packages (like old ispell dictionaries and exim3), do
+ # not use debconf, but accept environment variable
+ # DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive. Pass the current debconf
+ # frontend to them unless it is set already.
+ if [ -z "$DEBCONF_FRONTEND" ] ; then
+ # Get the value, and convert it to lower case to avoid
+ # forcing programs to handle the variable case-sensitive
+ DEBCONF_FRONTEND=`echo GET debconf/frontend | debconf-communicate | tr A-Z a-z | sed 's/^0 //'`
+ export DEBCONF_FRONTEND
+ fi
if apt-get -y -f dselect-upgrade; then
apt-get -f clean || true
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From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>
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Subject: Bug#205265: fixed in base-config 1.69
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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
base-config, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
base-config_1.69.dsc
to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_1.69.dsc
base-config_1.69.tar.gz
to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_1.69.tar.gz
base-config_1.69_all.deb
to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_1.69_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 205265@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org> (supplier of updated base-config package)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:53:49 +0200
Source: base-config
Binary: base-config
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.69
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>
Description:
base-config - Debian base configuration package
Closes: 205265 206438
Changes:
base-config (1.69) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Joey Hess:
- Added DEBIAN_FRONTEND setting hack for broken postinst scripts that
still check this variable. Closes: #205265
* Petter Reinholdtsen.
- Make sure the DEBIAN_FRONTEND hack never set an empty variable.
- Clean up message printing in termwrap.
- Updated debian/po/fr.po, thanks to Christian Perrier. (Closes: #206438)
- Make sure 75apt-install do not loop forever when running in
non-interactive mode.
Files:
16fd2331ed80b570bfb4c824c975cbc8 646 base optional base-config_1.69.dsc
0344cc86bcc9a3012f03f5b689618681 285147 base optional base-config_1.69.tar.gz
24c9f4ac9b5ca4db6384ffca4b06f648 135154 base optional base-config_1.69_all.deb
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