Bug#728439: updatebase: aptopts reset before aptitude invocation (may lead to failure)

2013-11-01 Thread Rene Bleisch
Package: fai-client Version: 4.0.8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, in /usr/lib/fai/updatebase, the apt-options are defined on line 31: export aptopt=-y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew Why aptopt is reset just before aptitude invocation? (line 38) export aptopt= In the following,

Bug#728439: updatebase: aptopts reset before aptitude invocation (may lead to failure)

2013-11-01 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:56:28 +0100, Rene Bleisch siw...@climate.unibe.ch said: Why aptopt is reset just before aptitude invocation? (line 38) export aptopt= This was added in 2005 because of some dpkg error.I guess it's not needed any more. Since it works without this line (I also