Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: package mgmt with apt Author: joke Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18977,18983#msg-18983
I haven't tried it yet but I think you can use the ifelapsed directive to do the dpkg checking a little less often. Only every 5 cf-agent run or so. If you don't set the DEBIAN_FRONTEND environmentale variable new packages can be installed without any problems as long as no package actually uses debconf. If a package which uses debconf will get install and opens an debconf prompt cfengine will get stuck. How could cfengine ask the debconf questions. Same goes for "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold" as long as there are no changes to configuration files dpkg will install the new configuration file without problem. If there are changes dpkg will always ask what to do and cfengine will get stuck. Unless you told dpkg what to do by setting --force-confold or --force-confnew. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
