On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, W. Borgert wrote: > I'm not 100% positive about the syntax, but the command line > > # apt-get --option 'DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs="touch /tmp/foo;";' \ > --yes install hello > > should create a file under /tmp/, but doesn't. For script > mirroring parts of Debian, I like to use apt-get install, > without actually installing the packages: > > But this works only, if I set the option in /etc/apt/apt.conf, > not at the command line. I tried DPkg::Pre-Invoke without > success. I'm working on sarge.
You have the syntax wrong, I forget where this is documented, but for the various list type items you need to use this format: # apt-get --option 'DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs::=false' \ --yes install hello Note the extra colon before the =. You can use 'apt-config dump -o blah' to see what it does ie: [..] DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "false"; Jason
