[Jason Gunthorpe] > If you think base-config should not be prompting then it probably > should be patched to call apt-get directly.
Perhaps. Do you have any suggestions on how the call to /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install /var/lib/dpkg should be changed to call apt-get directly? At the moment it will fetch and install the packages currently marked for installation. I've not found any other way to do this. > Your patch does not include any options to make apt-get > non-interactive (which would be insanely dangerous) so it's mostly > ineffective IMO. What do you mean? My patches changes the two prompts I am currently seing to understand DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, and use the default value instead of prompting. The only problem I see with my patch is how I am supposed to set DEBIAN_FRONTEND within base-installer during installation, but I'm sure I'll find a solution to this problem.
