Debian Bug report logs - #629590
aptitude: Fails to obey '-o "#clear DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs;"'

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From: Nick Phillips <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: aptitude: Fails to obey '-o "#clear DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs;"'
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Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:51:29 +1200
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.3-3.2
Severity: normal

The command line:
apt-get -q -y -o "#clear DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs;" install somepkg

still causes dpkg-preconfigure to be used to preconfigure packages, when the line:
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};

is present in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf


The equivalent invocation of apt-get successfully inhibits the preconfiguration.
I note that:
apt-config -o "#clear DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs;" dump

fails to parse the option and barfs, insisting that the option must contain an "=".
Perhaps this is related?


Cheers,


Nick


-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.3 compiled at Oct 16 2010 18:18:04
Compiler: g++ 4.4.5
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.10.1
  NCurses version 5.7
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20100313
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.10.1
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff09fff000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007f1c28d92000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f1c28b3f000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f1c28939000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f1c2866d000)
	libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007f1c28419000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f1c28038000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f1c27e21000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f1c27b8a000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 (0x00007f1c2796e000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1c27752000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f1c2743e000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1c271bb000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f1c26fa5000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1c26c44000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f1c26a40000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1c2683c000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f1c26637000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f1c26427000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f1c2621f000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1c290ae000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg4.10]    0.8.10.3         Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libboost-iostreams1.42. 1.42.0-4         Boost.Iostreams Library
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcwidget3             0.5.16-3         high-level terminal interface libr
ii  libept1                 1.0.4            High-level library for managing De
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-8        GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5            5.7+20100313-5   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a      2.2.4.2-1        type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.7.3-1          SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.5-8          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxapian22             1.2.3-2          Search engine library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index              0.41       maintenance and search tools for a
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.3-3.2  English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2.1  parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  sensible-utils                0.0.4      Utilities for sensible alternative

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  tasksel                       2.88       Tool for selecting tasks for insta

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