[Aptitude-devel] Bug#795396: Bug#795396: aptitude: DEBIAN_FRONTEND does not affect the debconf invoked by "aptitude

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi Karl,

2015-08-13 17:04 Karl O. Pinc:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
>Severity: normal
>
>Hi,
>
>export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
>aptitude --quiet=2 update
>aptitude --quiet=2 -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=$tmpsources -y safe-upgrade
>
>Results in an interactive debconf session on jessie.  This was not
>the case on wheezy.  (Assuming of course the safe-upgrade results
>in a change that invokes debconf.)
>
>Debconf version: 1.5.56
>
>$ debconf-show debconf
>debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
>  debconf-apt-progress/info:
>* debconf/frontend: Readline
>  debconf-apt-progress/title:
>  debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
>  debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
>* debconf/priority: medium

As far as I know, aptitude doesn't have any code handling this variable
or debconf directly.  Why do you think that it is a problem in aptitude?

Also, what does happen if you use apt-get instead?


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>