Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 4:22 PM Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Jun 2021 at 14:34:12 +0530, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > I wonder whether using dpkg-divert(1) would help in preserving your > modified file? > > Yes, this option was intentionally avoided by me because of scripting the maintainer scripts. I on

Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Brian
omatic upgrades but > it is still giving me the prompt even after specifying on command line : > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o > Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold -y --allow-unauthenticated > > Still prompt/complain about locally modified conf

Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread jaikuma...@gmail.com
out prompting during automatic upgrades but it is > still giving me the prompt even after specifying on command line : > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o > Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold -y --allow-unauthenticated > > Still prompt/complain about l

Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
c upgrades but > it is still giving me the prompt even after specifying on command line : > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o > Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold -y --allow-unauthenticated > > Still prompt/complain about locally modified configuration

Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
line : sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold -y --allow-unauthenticated Still prompt/complain about locally modified configuration file, as per documentation it should work. and I've also tried to put these below command in a config

Re: dpkg options

1998-03-30 Thread Jeff Shilt
> > The man page for dpkg says it's inaccurate and also out of date. Is > there an updated man page somewhere? I was just wondering if there might > be some options for the program that are not listed in the man or --help > pages. For example, is there an option to get the long description of a

Re: dpkg options

1998-03-30 Thread Fabien Ninoles
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 30 15:56:12 1998 > > The man page for dpkg says it's inaccurate and also out of date. Is > there an updated man page somewhere? I was just wondering if there might > be some options for the program that are not listed in the man or --help > pages. For example, i

dpkg options

1998-03-30 Thread pgarcia
The man page for dpkg says it's inaccurate and also out of date. Is there an updated man page somewhere? I was just wondering if there might be some options for the program that are not listed in the man or --help pages. For example, is there an option to get the long description of an installed