Re: Noninteractive "apt-get upgrade "question.
Sam Watkins(swatkins@fastmail.fm) is reported to have said:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:57:53AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
>
> I just noticed there are some dpkg options that cause it not to ask
> these questions.
>
> --force-confold and --force-confnew
>
> I wouldn't use --force-confnew, but --force-confold looks good. One
> could then merge the config files as a separate task, like gentoo's
> dispatch-conf, as the new config files would be available as
> /etc/foo.dpkg-new or /etc/foo.dpkg-dist or something.
>
> You can apparently set this option permanently in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
> by adding a line:
>
Humm. I don't seem to have a /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg on my
testing/unstable box.
Is that a typo in the man page or a missing file?
/var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.list shows a /usr/share/doc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
so I guess the man page assumes we have copied that dpkg.cfg into
/etc/dpkg. :-)
WT
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