Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

["Alan Ezust" <alan.ezust@gmail.com>]

On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> wrote:
> On 05-Jul-07, 14:06 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de> wrote:
> > Am Do den  5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust:
> > > I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a
> > > situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer
> > > than what it is about to replace. I would like it to just replace the
> > > configuration file without asking me, but it won't do that, even if I
> > > pass the -y option.
> >
> > I think the following lines will help:
> >  export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
> >  export DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical
>
> That's only for debconf; I think Alan is talking about the dpkg level
> conffile handling.
>
> Alan, you know that it should only be prompting you on conffiles you actually
> modified? Do you really want those overwritten?

Yes, I see it is indeed only prompting me for conffiles that I
manually modified. In my particular situation, and I realize this is
unusual/dangerous, I still would like to to clobber my handmade
changes with newer versions from a .deb file. Setting those two
environment variables did not change the behavior of dpkg in this
particular case.