task_updatebase and force-confold

[Andreas Heinlein]

Am 29.10.2010 12:55, schrieb Michael Tautschnig:
>> Am 26.10.2010 14:39, schrieb Michael Tautschnig:
>>     
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the advice. I did both manually, i.e. edit ucf.conf and
>>>> create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90fai with DPkg-Options "--force-confdef" and
>>>> "--force-confold", then ran "fai -v -N softupdate". I verified the DPKG
>>>> configuration with apt-config. fai-client still asks this question and
>>>> softupdate stops. Do you know of any further places where to look?
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Ok, thanks a lot for checking; could you post a relevant excerpt of your logs?
>>> Might make things a bit more precise...
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have attached fai.log and variables.log.
>> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ist set.
>>
>>     
> Well, I still think that the ucf configuration is not appropriate. Could you try
>
> export UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD=1
>
> in one of your class/*.var files being appropriate for this client?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Michael
>
>   
That seemed to work, at least on the test machine. Should work
elsewhere, too; I will post if not.

Thank you very much,
Andreas