Re: dselect

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:38:59AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:36:08AM -0700, Asura wrote:
> > One more question, if you don't mind (being a newbie)
> > how can I run dselect install in the background?
> 
> Why in back ground.  APT system run by dselect

Pet peeve: apt has nothing to do with the questions that are asked while
upgrading packages.

> asks question unless you set "debconf" to assume yes to all etc.

Even then you'll have to pass dpkg special options to force what it does
with conffile changes.

Completely unattended upgrades are a worthwhile goal, but they aren't
possible in the general case yet.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]