Hi Manual, On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 16:15:56 +0100 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > 2015-08-13 17:04 Karl O. Pinc: > >Package: aptitude > >Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 > >Severity: normal > >export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive > >aptitude --quiet=2 update > >aptitude --quiet=2 -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=$tmpsources -y > >safe-upgrade > > > >Results in an interactive debconf session on jessie. This was not > >the case on wheezy. (Assuming of course the safe-upgrade results > >in a change that invokes debconf.) > > > >Debconf version: 1.5.56 > > > >$ debconf-show debconf > >debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not > >open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied > > debconf-apt-progress/info: > >* debconf/frontend: Readline > > debconf-apt-progress/title: > > debconf-apt-progress/preparing: > > debconf-apt-progress/media-change: > >* debconf/priority: medium > > As far as I know, aptitude doesn't have any code handling this > variable or debconf directly. Why do you think that it is a problem > in aptitude? Thanks for the reply. I don't know that it's a problem in aptitude (or what aptitude's code handles). I reported the bug to aptitude because that the only code path I know for sure exhibits the bug. I figured you guys would have a better idea of what the source of the problem is than I do. Feel free to reassign the bug to another package that is more appropriate. > Also, what does happen if you use apt-get instead? I don't know. It's not clear to me how to create a test environment to reproduce the problem. It requires that an installed package get an update put into a repo and that the update makes changes to a user-modifed config file (right?) so that debconf is invoked when the update is installed. I'm not apt-savvy enough just now to be able to re-create the problem on my own. I'd be willing to try to reproduce the problem with apt-get but I'd need some help. I haven't tried to research the problem but, offhand, I couldn't even give you a list of steps that would reach the goal. My guess would be I'd have to learn how to create a .deb package, and maybe an apt repo. My hope was that by reporting the problem somebody with experience would magically step in and resolve the issue. :-) Please advise. Regards, Karl <[email protected]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
