Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe
On 17 March 2013 09:18, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 March 2013 23:04, Serafeim Zanikolas <sez@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:32:40PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>>> Right. Apt-listbugs is effectively called in the same context as
>>> maintainer scripts, and those are not guaranteed to have an
>>> interactive shell. The program must be smart enough to detect this
>>> and do the right thing (I'm not sure if it already does :-).
>>
>> By default, apt-listbugs relies on /dev/tty, but that can be overriden via the
>> APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND env variable. The only valid frontend alternative at the
>> moment is "none", which makes apt-listbugs a noop (to avoid hanging when
>> invoked non-interactively). The idea would be to add a "programmatic" or so
>> frontend, which would rely on some form of IPC instead of the terminal.
Debconf may provide a suitable interface there, as well as supporting:
> Actually, I was refering to the standard frontend just not seeking
> input when it is not connected to an interactive terminal. This would
> be, for example, displaying the list of bugs and proceeding, or some
> other configurable action depending on the severity, etc.. This is
> the same as maintainer scripts behave: with sensible defaults in the
> non-interactive case.
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