Relatively speaking, it is safe. Not perfect, but neither is the other decision.
Generally speaking, 'force yes' shows up any time that folks modify a configuration file as a critical option. Without that, replacement wouldn't happen the same way. Daniel On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 15:17, piavlo <lolitus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Daniel, > > Is it safe to use "force yes" in debian package provider or is it > better to just fail? > So afaiu debian provider uses apt-get and not aptitude? > > > On Aug 12, 9:22 pm, Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >> You should file a bug report against the package with Debian; we set >> the "noninteractive", and the "force yes", bits that absolutely >> *should* make it work fine in these circumstances. >> >> I am sorry that it doesn't work; if you find something we didn't do, >> that makes the prompt go away, please let us know. :) >> >> Daniel >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 13:38, Craig White <craig.wh...@ttiltd.com> wrote: >> > Appear that 'adminfile' option is a Solaris only thing. >> >> > I found that ubuntu/debian has >> > debconf-get-selections/debconf-set-selections packages which might >> > actually get me there but it introduces new package dependencies and would >> > take more time than it is reasonably worth as we will never have many >> > servers with mod-mono anyway. >> >> > I think I will just manually install on the servers that will need it. >> >> > Thanks >> >> > Craig >> >> > On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Nathan Clemons wrote: >> >> >> Isn't there an adminfile option to the package resource that will let you >> >> pass responses as if it were an interactive session? Not sure if it's >> >> supported for the apt provider, but worth looking into if you haven't >> >> already. >> >> >> -- >> >> Nathan Clemons >> >>http://www.livemocha.com >> >> The worlds largest online language learning community >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Craig White <craig.wh...@ttiltd.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> Clearly not a problem caused by puppet but something I can't apparently >> >> deploy with puppet unless someone has an idea. >> >> >> Trying to automate a way to deploy mod_mono for apache >> >> >> from CLI, the problem seems obvious... >> >> >> apt-get install -y --assume-yes libapache2-mod-mono mono-apache-server >> >> libmono-firebirdsql1.7-cil >> >> >> a massive pile of packages installs and it finally arrives at the truth >> >> moment: >> >> >> Configuration file `/etc/apache2/mods-available/mod_mono.conf' >> >> ==> File on system created by you or by a script. >> >> ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. >> >> What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: >> >> Y or I : install the package maintainer's version >> >> N or O : keep your currently-installed version >> >> D : show the differences between the versions >> >> Z : background this process to examine the situation >> >> The default action is to keep your current version. >> >> *** mod_mono.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? >> >> >> So it appears that the same target, mod_mono.conf is being created both >> >> by script and a file in the package itself and it appears that all of the >> >> '-y' or '--assume-yes' logic in the command itself will not allow an >> >> install to progress without an interactive answer to the question - the >> >> answer to which is essentially meaningless because I can control the file >> >> anyway with puppet. >> >> >> Anyone have an idea how to defeat well intentioned but defective packager >> >> logic? >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "Puppet Users" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> >> -- >> ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer –http://puppetlabs.com >> ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
