Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:57:31AM -0700, Alan Ezust wrote: > Subject: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf > files in /etc > > Hi - i was wondering, I'm trying to run apt-get upgrade in a > non-interactive shell. > I passed -y as an option, and then during the po

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alan Ezust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.06.0017 +0200]: > Yes, I see it is indeed only prompting me for conffiles that I > manually modified. In my particular situation, and I realize this is > unusual/dangerous, I still would like to to clobber my handmade > changes with newer versions

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:17:12PM -0700, Alan Ezust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alan, you know that it should only be prompting you on conffiles you >> actually >> modified? Do you really want those overwritten? > > Yes, I see

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Ezust
On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05-Jul-07, 14:06 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust: > > I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a > > situation where the package has a configuration f

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Jul-07, 14:06 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust: > > I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a > > situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer > > than what it is about to replace

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust: > I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a > situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer > than what it is about to replace. I would like it to just rep