Hello Paul!
Thank you for your reply!
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Paul Menzel wrote:
I am not sure, but is not there an option to set the priority for dpkg
when to ask such questions. Maybe you have to set it to high and a
default, if the maintainer’s or your file should be installed or kept.
I believe this is set via the debconf/priority option:
sprinkle:~# debconf-show eeepc-acpi-scripts
sprinkle:~# debconf-show debconf
debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
debconf-apt-progress/title:
debconf-apt-progress/info:
debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
debconf/frontend: Dialog
debconf/priority: high
sprinkle:~#
...which then should mean that only high and critical priority messages
should be shown. Perhaps replacement of configuration files classify as
such (sounds reasonable).
I believe cron-apt sets some environment variables
(DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" and DEBCONF_FRONTEND="noninteractive")
which helps for some packages but perhaps not all.
It appears that the solution to the "problem" would be to specify in
/etc/cron-apt/action.d/4-install or whatever one has named it):
--option Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" --option
Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold"
...i.e. as options to the APTCOMMAND (apt-get by default). This should
force dpkg to choose the default value for prompts (which usually is "keep
your existing version") and for those questions which do not have a
default, to keep the existing version.
Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for your help!
Best regards,
Björn
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