| Hi,
From the page you just sent --> -y, --yes, --assume-yes
Automatic yes to prompts. Assume "yes" as answer to all prompts
and run non-interactively. If an undesirable situation, such as
changing a held package or
removing an essential package, occurs then apt-get will abort.
As you can see apt-get aborts and doesnt do the work on an "essential" package.
Cheers Geoff
On 25 Mar 2012, at 14:49, Joshua Miller wrote: The -y option should take care of that I believe.
On Mar 25, 2012, at 2:34 AM, Geoff Meakin <
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> wrote: It still demands interactivity from STDIN that the particular phrase is typed: "Yes, do as I say!" (It's a weird apt thing for packages marked essential)
I guess I'll have to use a bash resource instead, I just wondered if package could do it to make it distro independent.
Cheers Geoff On 24 Mar 2012, at 21:33, Joshua Miller wrote: You could wrap the "options" attribute in a case statement?
Hi all, I am on debian
doing:
package "foo" do
action :install
end
works fine in most cases.
Some packages however (I read somewhere there are 8 of them?) seem to be critical/core packages and trying to uninstall them mean that the normal way of installing under the covers:
apt-get -y
just doesnt work. upstart is such a package as it uninstalls sysvinit.
Is there a standard way of automatically installing this using chef?
If I had to do a commandline version I would do this:
yes "Yes, do as I say!" | apt-get -y --force-yes upstart
But then this deviates somewhat from the nicely distribution-agnostic package chef dsl
Thanks
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