Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alan Ezust [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.06.0017 +0200]: Yes, I see it is indeed only prompting me for conffiles that I manually modified. In my particular situation, and I realize this is unusual/dangerous, I still would like to to clobber my handmade changes with newer versions from

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust: I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer than what it is about to replace. I would like it to just

apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Ezust
Hi - i was wondering, I'm trying to run apt-get upgrade in a non-interactive shell. I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer than what it is about to replace. I would like it to just replace the

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Jul-07, 14:06 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust: I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer than what it is about to replace. I

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Ezust
On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05-Jul-07, 14:06 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust: I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a situation where the package has a configuration file

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:17:12PM -0700, Alan Ezust [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, you know that it should only be prompting you on conffiles you actually modified? Do you really want those overwritten? Yes, I see it is indeed