Ubuntu
apt-listchanges package

  1. Bug #788519
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James Hunt (jamesodhunt) wrote :

Binary package hint: apt

In Maverick, the following would prompt for a password *once*:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Now, due to apt-listchanges, if any changelogs need to be downloaded, apt will run until an admin manually pages through the changelog entries. This appears to be due to apt-listchanges, specifically /etc/apt/listchanges.conf which specifies:

  frontend=pager

To avoid regressing the traditional behaviour, a fix would be to change listchanges.conf to specify:

  frontend=text