On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:28:03PM +0100, Mark Baker wrote: > >automatic installations fail because > >read -p > >is called after displaying the 'exim 3.x is obsolete' message in > >postinst _without_ checking for DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive". > >this makes the whole machine wait during the installation and thus > >renders the system unusable > > > > > It's not just that one, there were many other places where it did this. > However, they were all on upgrades, so perhaps weren't much of a problem > as people don't tend to do non-interactive upgrades (don't they? I'd > have thought it was a fairly common thing to do from a cron job or the > like).
people do noninteractive updates. at least the ones having more than 2 machines ;) -- c u henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
