Hi Geoff, On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Geoff Shang <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y >> dist-upgrade still sometimes halts the installation process to ask me >> questions and prompts. This is a big misfeature and I wonder if there's a >> way to make apt-get completely non-interactive. >> > > You could reconfigure the debconf package - see dpkg-reconfigure(8). Thanks for the tip. > However, there are some questions that you probably should see when > upgrading, for example when a config file that ships in a package has been > modified since installation and you need to decide whether to install the > new config file or stick with the old one. Having had to do this very > thing today, sometime the answer was one and sometimes the answer was the > other, and mostly it involved a bit of both (choosing one answer but adding > some content from the other). The ability to view a diff between the files > is a big help in these situations. > Yes, I see now. I think all my Debian systems are either VMs or a secondary partition, so it should not be too critical, and what rpm-based systems do is keep .rpmnew and .rpmsave files for this. Thanks again. Regards, — Shlomi Fish -- ------------------------------------------ Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
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