Re: Bug#177272: apt: should respect DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> When base-config calls '/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install
> /var/lib/dpkg' from /usr/lib/base-config/75apt-get, the script will
> ask if the downloaded debs should be removed, and ask the user to
> press enter to continue. This will happen even if DEBIAN_FRONTEND is
> noninteractive.
Uh. The dpkg/methods script is ment to be used with dselect and really is
intrinsically interactive.
If you think base-config should not be prompting then it probably should
be patched to call apt-get directly. Your patch does not include any
options to make apt-get non-interactive (which would be insanely
dangerous) so it's mostly ineffective IMO.
Jason
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