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Hi Nick,
2011-06-07 22:51 Nick Phillips:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.3-3.2
Severity: normal
The command line:
apt-get -q -y -o "#clear DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs;" install somepkg
still causes dpkg-preconfigure to be used to preconfigure packages, when the
line:
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
is present in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
The equivalent invocation of apt-get successfully inhibits the preconfiguration.
I note that:
apt-config -o "#clear DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs;" dump
fails to parse the option and barfs, insisting that the option must contain an
"=".
Perhaps this is related?
As discussed in the bug submitted to apt (#656844), probably this never
worked, the syntax in config variables passed with command line and the
syntax in config files is different, and #clear has never been
supported.
From apt.conf:
All of the APT tools take an -o option which allows an arbitrary
configuration directive to be specified on the command line. The
syntax is a full option name (APT::Get::Assume-Yes for instance)
followed by an equals sign then the new value of the option. To
append a new element to a list, add a trailing :: to the name of the
list. (As you might suspect, the scope syntax can't be used on the
command line.)
and DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs uses a "scope".
2012-01-22 09:19 Daniel Hartwig:
I have submitted a patch to support this in libapt-pkg [1].
From the discussion in the bug report above, this is unlikely to happen,
at least with that patch.
One suggestion was to implement "--clear-option" instead.
However, if apt-* don't support this yet, I am not sure if aptitude
should, so this needs further consideration.
Aptitude
should soon make use of the same library to parse its command-line
[2], which will resolve this issue.
Otherwise, it is simple to implement the same patch is aptitude's
current parser.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/656844
[2]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=aptitude/aptitude.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/wip-cmdline
This branch never came to be merged, so this doesn't apply now.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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