Re: Debian package management with cfengine

[Russell Adams]

I use alot more than just the noninteractive, here are a few choice
snips from my configs that show all the settings I've had to use to
keep apt quiet during installations.

These are based on archived posts you can view at:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=mailman.1479.1065791230.21628.help-cfengine%40gnu.org&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Ddpkg%2Bcfengine%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26selm%3Dmailman.1479.1065791230.21628.help-cfengine%2540gnu.org%26rnum%3D2

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editfiles:

        ConfigureApt.debian::

                ############################################################
                # Forget debconf, don't use it.
                { /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf

                CommentLinesStarting "DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs"
                }

                ############################################################
                # Dpkg options for config files.
                { /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg

                AutoCreate
                AppendIfNoSuchLine 'force-confold'
                AppendIfNoSuchLine 'force-confdef'
                }


Create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10cfengine with the following:
   Append "APT {"
   Append "        Get {"
   Append "        Assume-Yes \"true\";"
   Append "        Fix-Missing \"yes\";"
   Append "        Show-Upgraded \"yes\";"
   Append "        Purge \"true\";"
   Append "        List-Cleanup \"true\";"
   Append "        ReInstall \"false\";"
   Append "        };"
   Append "};"
   Append ""
   Append "DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"
   Append "        \"dpkg-preconfigure --apt --frontend=non interactive\";"
   Append "};"

Also, I do use the noninteractive when calling apt-get install:

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive /usr/bin/apt-get install "$1"

Though I was surprised to see apt support in 2.1.13 this weekend, I've
got some shell script modules I use for querying and installing
packages that work for me. I'll share them if there is interest.

Russell

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:23:40AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Moritz Bunkus <m.bunkus@linet-services.de> [2005.03.21.0933 
> +0100]:
> > as in "install that package with its default options". This did work
> > rather well with joe, but I ran into some problems with another package
> > and its config files.
> 
> Details?
> 
> It might help to set
> 
>  DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
> 
> before the apt-get call.
> 
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