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  • Committer: Free Ekanayaka
  • Date: 2015-10-14 21:11:44 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 333.
  • Revision ID: free.ekanayaka@canonical.com-20151014211144-5cr30ya1wd2uhct2
Set DEBIAN_FRONTEND

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    def reconfigure(self):
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        """Reconfigure the package in non-interactive mode."""
 
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        env = os.environ.copy()
 
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        # XXX It seems that some packages (e.g. postfix) are not happy with
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        #     the 'noninteractive' frontend, and don't really reconfigure
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        #     anything in that case. Using the editor frontend and pointing
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        #     the editor to a no-op like /bin/true workarounds the problem.
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        env = os.environ.copy()
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        env["EDITOR"] = "/bin/true"
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        self._subprocess.check_call([
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            DPKG_RECONFIGURE, "-feditor", self._package], env=env)
 
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        # XXX Set the frontend using the environment variable and not the -f
 
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        #     command line options, since dpkg-reconfigure prefers the former
 
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        #     over the latter, and juju sets it to noninteractive by default.
 
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        env["DEBIAN_FRONTEND"] = "editor"
 
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        self._subprocess.check_call([DPKG_RECONFIGURE, self._package], env=env)
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    def _format_option(self, name, value):
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        """Format an option line to feed to debconf-set-selections."""