distributing package updates

[John Paul Lorenti]

What happens to questions that need answering, though, such as whether 
to update a conf file and such? I know apt remembers previous answers 
and can be setup to not ask again, but you may need to change your 
answers or answer questions for new packages. It would be great to be 
able to answer them on one machine in a group of identically configured 
machines and then copy those answers over for use on the rest of the 
machines.

John Paul

Henning Glawe wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:02:55AM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
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>>export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
>>apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
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>better use 
>apt-get dist-upgrade
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>it also updates packages with "new" dependencies, resolving them on the fly.
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