Thank you Daniel!!
You sent me the (REALLY BIG) hint and this is the 'how to'
cat > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/etch-upgrade <<EOF
APT {
Get {
Assume-Yes "true";
Fix-Broken "true";
Force-Yes "true";
};
};
DPkg
{
// Probably don't want to use force-downgrade..
Options {"--force-confold";}
}
EOF
The syntax for this file can be found
/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf
/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz
Tony Heal
Pace Systems Group, Inc.
800-624-5999
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Burrows [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:34 AM
> To: Tony Heal
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: upgrading to etch
>
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:54:25PM -0400, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
> heard to say:
> > Does anyone know what function/package does the prompting for replacing
> > configuration files during
> an upgrade? Any one
> > know how to automate the answers. Here is an example
>
> These prompts are issued by dpkg. You can disable them by passing the
> --force-conf{new,old,def} options to dpkg, see dpkg(1); to get these flags
> when dpkg is called from apt, put them in dpkg.cfg or apt.conf.
>
> I don't think there's any way to automate the choice at the package level,
> although you could maybe do something horrible using expect.
>
> Daniel
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