Ticket #483 (new defect) — at Initial Version
auto-update should deal with conffile conflicts
Reported by: | broder | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | blocker | Milestone: | Spring 2010 |
Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
Upstream bug: |
Description
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.
On not-cluster machines, it's less clear. It sounds like Athena 9 used rpm's default behavior, which was the equivalent of --force-confold. I think ideally the update should fail and e-mail root (yeah, yeah, #83, I know), leaving them to fix the upgrade, but I don't know if there's a way to make dpkg error out on conffile conflicts.
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