On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > [Resent with a proper subject.] > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to automate the setup of an Ubuntu Server 10.04 64bit > system. I am unable to run apt-get upgrade sucessfully (i.e. without > manual intervention). Every time it blocks because of openssh-server > (and portmap): > > Setting up openssh-server (1:5.3p1-3ubuntu6) ... > > Configuration file `/etc/init/ssh.conf' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > Y or I : install the package maintainer's version > N or O : keep your currently-installed version > D : show the differences between the versions > Z : background this process to examine the situation > The default action is to keep your current version. > *** ssh.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?
It depends on what you want (to keep the old config file or accept the new), but you can do: apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" or apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" To force dpkg to install one or the other. Probably invoke like this: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get \ --option Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold --assume-yes upgrade Personally, I'd probably save off your old config and then use force-confnew. dpkg might save it for you anyway, i'm not sure. > I tried '-y' and '--force-yes'. I tried using aptitude instead of > apt-get. I tried aptitude's safe-upgrade. I tried setting debconf to > Noninteractive. Nothing seems to make any difference. How do I make > sure the upgrade continues automatically? -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
