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and subject line Re: Bug#882412: Cannot be installed non-interactively
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Package: fprobe
Version: 1.1-7.3+b1
This is a packaging issue.
When trying to install with:
apt-get install --assume-yes fprobe
apt-get still prompt the user for trivial configuration options (address
and port of the recipient).
(note that if you had fprobe installed earlier you have to purge it
first in order to witness the behavior described above)
In non-interactive mode the package should just install the default
setting (if you ask me, the default is sane enough that the user should
not be prompted even in interactive mode - how painfully slow installing
anything would be if it was the norm that every service should prompt
for ports every number).
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
Am 22.11.2017 um 13:47 schrieb rixed-report...@happyleptic.org:
> Package: fprobe
> Version: 1.1-7.3+b1
>
> This is a packaging issue.
>
> When trying to install with:
>
> apt-get install --assume-yes fprobe
>
> apt-get still prompt the user for trivial configuration options (address
> and port of the recipient).
>
> (note that if you had fprobe installed earlier you have to purge it
> first in order to witness the behavior described above)
>
> In non-interactive mode the package should just install the default
> setting (if you ask me, the default is sane enough that the user should
> not be prompted even in interactive mode - how painfully slow installing
> anything would be if it was the norm that every service should prompt
> for ports every number).
As with most Debian packages fprobe uses debconf to display
configuration prompts.
apt-get --assume-yes only affects apt-get prompts, not debconf.
The proper way to deal with this would be to set the frontend to
"noninteractive" and/or set the priority of questions asked to
"critical", i.e.
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --assume-yes fprobe
See also https://wiki.debian.org/debconf and
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/debconf-doc/debconf.7.en.html
Best Regards,
Bernhard
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