** Attachment added: "unattended-upgrade-dpkg-conffile-prompt.diff"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9024839/unattended-upgrade-dpkg-conffile-prompt.diff
** Description changed:
Recently I discovered that rsync was not automatically upgraded with a
security update on one of my boxes but it was updated on others. The box
- runs an rsync server and obiously it had a modified /etc/rsyncd.conf and
- running unattended-upgrade -d revealed that due to this fact it wasn't
- being updated. However, I also have configured APT to supply dpkg with
- such command-line options that no config file prompt would occur. It
- doesn't make sense to blacklist packages that contain modified config
- files if APT is configured in this way. This functionality can be
+ runs an rsync server and obviously it had a modified /etc/rsyncd.conf
+ and running unattended-upgrade -d revealed that due to this fact it
+ wasn't being updated. However, I also have configured APT to supply dpkg
+ with such command-line options that no config file prompt would occur.
+ It doesn't make sense to blacklist packages that contain modified config
+ files if APT/dpkg is configured in this way. This functionality can be
achieved by including the following snippet in the apt.conf:
Dpkg {
Options { "--force-confold" };
};
- The (hopefully soon, I'm trying to figure out how to attach stuff on bug
- reports with this terrible Launchpad things, what's wroing with Debian
- bug database and reportbug(1) anyways??? I at least hope you can edit
- this description later...) attached patch will modify unattended-update
- to do that. If you like the idea, feel free to use it as is or as an
- inspiration for better implementation of the idea.
+ The attached patch will modify unattended-update to do that. If you like
+ the idea, feel free to use it as is or as an inspiration for better
+ implementation of the idea.
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PATCH: Don't blacklist packages that contain modified config files if dpkg is
not going to prompt on them
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135247
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