Hi, On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 02:40:30PM +0800, Jesse Steele wrote: > I'm a dev who relies on updates on many machines; I write scripts to handle > them. I don't have the resources to investigate every daily build to see if > GRUB or PHP is going to ask a question that, under most circumstances, needs > the obvious, default answer.
In your case, using DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, running apt-get with -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" and redirecting stdin from /dev/null is probably appropriate. > This isn't just any Linux distro, this is the awesome Ubuntu, which we use > for its reliability. So, we don't need to have PHP and GRUB or any other > update nag us at the `apt upgrade -y` events. All `upgrade` packages should > come with a presumed response—GRUB's menu can be updated when IT wants to, > don't bother asking if I used `-y`; and no of course I don't want to > override all the php.ini settings I have for my production servers. If > upgrade packages need options, let the devs with more resources still have > the option, with information on how to automate those in the `upgrade` well > in advance, but not if using `upgrade -y`. Please note https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1747464 - by default you shouldn't get prompted, and if you do it's a bug (possibly this bug - please mark yourself as affected if you are). Normally though, when there isn't a bug, if you change your system the distribution doesn't want to step on your feet, so it has to prompt. It can't have the knowledge of the customisation you've performed (only you can know that), and doing the wrong thing may lead to a broken system. If you don't want the prompt in automation, you can use the appropriate options to turn it off. I don't think it makes sense to change the default for this case; the most appropriate default is for normal interactive use. Hope that helps, Robie
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