* da...@lang.hm <da...@lang.hm> [100423 16:46]: > hopefully this is a quick answer fro someone > > I am scripting a upgrade on a debian derived system and one particular > package insists on prompting me for infomation. I don't want to have to > have someone sit and tell it to shutup on each of a couple hundred > systems. > > I know there is a preseeding option for this, but what I'm finding from a > google search is horrible overkill (talking about requireing an initrd, > etc. I'm not rebuilding the machine, just scripting one dpkg -i command) > > anyone have a quick pointer they can send me? >
Setting the environment variable DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive will
prevent dpkg from being interactive.
If you're comfortable with just sticking with your old configs you can
also add this line to /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg:
force-confold
My cfengine invocations of dpkg run that way.
Ben
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