Re: Noninteractive "apt-get upgrade "question.
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:31:32PM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote:
> What is the best way to "apt-get update" a classroom full of debian
> sarge machines.
>
> I tired using
>
> apt-get update
> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -uy dist-upgrade
>
> Nevertheless I was asked some questions as follows:
>
> Configuration file `/etc/profile'
> ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
> ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
> What would you like to do about it ?
If you're sure these are the only sort of question you'll get, which
seems likely, then this should work:
yes n | apt-get update DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -uy dist-upgrade
This is really dodgy though. There should be an option to configure
this. I might look at it a bit more and write a patch or something.
The package maintainer's new config file will still be saved (as
/etc/foo.dpkg-new or something like that), so you can look for such
files after an upgrade (with a script) and update the config files if
necessary.
You can manage configuration files for a whole network centrally
using cfengine2. (I haven't used this package yet, but it sounds good.)
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