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 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 replace the > configuration file without asking me, but it won't do that, even if I > pass the -y option. > > I realize that the default behavior of apt-get is probably valid, but > is there a way to run apt-get such that clobbering of configuration > files can happen without user intervention?
conffiles is a dpkg thing - not apt ....
Try something like this ...
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
apt-get \
-o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" \
--force-yes \
-fuy \
dist-upgrade
I used something like this (a shell script with a couple hundret lines) to
upgrade
a couple hundret machines from woody via sarge to etch ... (Can we make 6 Year
Release cycles please?).
Flo
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