Ticket #543 (closed defect: fixed)
auto-updater should resolve conffile conflicts on -workstation
| Reported by: | jdreed | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Natty Alpha |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
This was originally the second half of #483:
Right now, if anything triggers a dpkg conffile conflict, auto-update will hang indefinitely. Cluster machines invoke apttiude with "-o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew"
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 (which may or may not go anywhere useful), leaving them to fix the upgrade, but I don't know if there's a way to make dpkg error out on conffile conflicts.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed
- Milestone changed from Summer 2010 (Lucid Deploy) to Fall 2010
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed
I vote for --force-confold, with a configurable option in /etc/default/debathena-auto-update to change it to --force-confnew.
I think that best suits the -workstation demographic.
Thoughts?
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed
Perhaps the solution to this (and maybe #117) is to come up with a general-purpose way to notify the person sitting at console of a -workstation machine.
It's also been noted that as its invoked currently, auto-update shouldn't hang indefinitely, so we should figure out why it's doing that.
