Ticket #483 (closed defect: fixed)
auto-update should deal with conffile conflicts on cluster
Reported by: | broder | Owned by: | jdreed |
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Priority: | blocker | Milestone: | Spring 2010 |
Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
Upstream bug: |
Description (last modified by jdreed) (diff)
Right now, if anything triggers a dpkg conffile conflict, auto-update will hang indefinitely. Not the best failure mode.
On cluster machines, since we are the sysadmin, we should be passing -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew to aptitude.
Change History
comment:2 follow-up: ↓ 3 Changed 15 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from new to accepted
- Owner set to jdreed
Now that mail to root occasionally goes somewhere useful, I say we implement this as described above (--force-confnew on cluster, --force-confold on workstation and whine at the user).
comment:3 in reply to: ↑ 2 Changed 15 years ago by andersk
Replying to jdreed:
as described above (--force-confnew on cluster, --force-confold on workstation and whine at the user).
That is not as described above. --force-confold is the Athena 9 behavior. The desired behavior as described is to make the update fail, which is different.