Re: Prompt restart services during pkg upgrades preseed file
On 6/3/2019 11:40 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 03 Jun 2019 at 09:58:38 +0200, john doe wrote:
>
>> Hi, while installing Buster using a preseed file I'm getting the following:
>>
>> Select and install software
>> Configuring libpam0g:amd64
>> --------------------------
>>
>> There are services installed on your system which need to be restarted when
>> certain libraries, such as libpam, libc, and libssl, are upgraded. Since
>> these
>> restarts may cause interruptions of service for the system, you will
>> normally
>> be prompted on each upgrade for the list of services you wish to
>> restart. You
>> can choose this option to avoid being prompted; instead, all necessary
>> restarts
>> will be done for you automatically so you can avoid being asked questions on
>> each library upgrade.
>> Restart services during package upgrades without asking?
>> 1: Yes 2: No [*]
>> Prompt: '?' for help, default=2>
>>
>> If I use 'DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive' it works and will use the
>> default value and I don't get any output on the screen.
>>
>> I don't see what I need to change in (1) to avoied that prompt and I
>> can't specify the value of my choise?
>>
>> Any help is appriciated.
>>
>> 1) https://d-i.debian.org/manual/example-preseed.txt
>
> Download and open the libpam0g package. Its DEBIAN directory has a
> templates file; the preseed directive you want is in it.
>
Thanks for the hint, here's what I ended up doing:
In '/var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat' I had:
Name: libpam0g/restart-services
Template: libpam0g/restart-services
Value: cron
Name: libraries/restart-without-asking
Template: libraries/restart-without-asking
Value: false
and in the preseed file I use:
d-i libpam0g/restart-services string cron
d-i libraries/restart-without-asking boolian false
In a nut shell, I simply had to convert the debconf format to the
preseed file format.
--
John Doe
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