Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
On 2024-11-30 20:00, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: So, it looks like what you want is noninteractive, with preseeding. You should probably read the entire man page, as there are lots of ways to tweak the behavior of debconf. Regards, -Roberto Thanks Roberto and Andy. I'll look at debconf and se

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 05:38:40PM -0500, John Boxall wrote: > > Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? > As Andy explained, no the "-y" option will not prevent the prompt. The "-y" as you have used it is passed to apt-get and defaults the answers to prompts presente

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
On 2024-11-30 17:48, Andy Smith wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 10:45:37PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? I forgot to add: Using -y on dist-upgrade is a good way to completely destroy your system given the slightest anomaly (and thi

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 10:45:37PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? I forgot to add: Using -y on dist-upgrade is a good way to completely destroy your system given the slightest anomaly (and this is an upgrade to testing, so…) so I r

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 05:38:40PM -0500, John Boxall wrote: > apt-get -y --show-progress dist-upgrade > > During the dist-upgrade I am presented with the following prompt: > > > Setting up fwupd (1.9.26-2) ... > > Configuration file '/etc/fwupd/fwupd.conf' > ==> File on system crea

Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
I am upgrading a bookworm vm (vmware workstation pro guest, bookworm host) to "testing" (aka trixie/sid) to try it out. Both the guest and host have all of the latest updates. I am using the following commands to perform the upgrade, having already updated sources.list: apt-get -y --