Hello Karl,
2015-09-06 20:12 Karl O. Pinc:
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.
I never used that feature of debconf, so I am not familiar at all with
it, sorry.
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.
Perhaps it also work installing some package that you don't need, but it
is harmless, and know for sure that uses debconf?
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.
I could try to reproduce it, but as I said above, I never used it so I
don't know how it would look like, and even then I wouldn't know if it's
the problem that you observed.
If you cannot test with the suggestion above, I think that it's better
to reassign to debconf package itself, let me know if you want me to do
this.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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