task_updatebase and force-confold

[Michael Tautschnig]

> Hello,
> 
> can someone tell me how aptitude is called in task_updatebase? I cannot
> find it in the logs. I have the feeling it is *not* called with
> "--force-confdef --force-confold", like during task_instsoft? The reason
> I'm asking is that I was trying to update a machine with softupdate,
> which was running fai-client 3.3.5. During task_updatebase, aptitude
> asks whether to keep the old config or install the new one, and
> softupdate stops there.
> 
> This is bad, since we are usually running softupdates unattended during
> shutdown. What would be the quickest fix for this?
> 

Could you please take a look at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313397
and see whether this helps to solve your problem? It does for me, at least. But
apparently I failed to convince other people that this is fix is necessary.

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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