Control: tags -1 patch
Chris,
Thanks.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 09:48:35PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Judging by the message, this is probably caused by the new
> DPKG_FORCE support in ucf.
Yes. Can you verify the patch below fixes for you?
This also caught my eye:
> $ podman run -it --rm debian:unstable apt --update install -y -o
> Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew
> --allow-change-held-packages nfs-common
Why both --force-confnew and --force-confdef? My reading of dpkg(1) suggests
that confdef overrides confnew. Or have I misunderstood?
Mark
commit e0e686df372ca77fda94c0091be1b3f43adcf795
Author: Mark Hindley <m...@hindley.org.uk>
Date: Wed Jan 15 21:12:06 2025 +0000
ucf: fix handling of DPKG_FORCE confdef: -- vset() rejects empty string.
Closes: #1093156
diff --git a/ucf b/ucf
index f3989ff..3f39c56 100755
--- a/ucf
+++ b/ucf
@@ -501,7 +501,9 @@ for f in $DPKG_FORCE ; do
confold) force_conff=$(vset "old" "DPKG_FORCE keep file") ;;
confnew) force_conff=$(vset "new" "DPKG_FORCE keep file") ;;
# The following override other settings, so break out of loop.
- confdef) force_conff=$(vset "" "DPKG_FORCE keep file"); break ;;
+ confdef) unset force_conff
+ [ "$VERBOSE" ] && echo >&2 "DPKG_FORCE keep file default"
+ break ;;
confask) force_conff=$(vset "ask" "DPKG_FORCE keep file"); break ;;
esac
done
