[Bug 1773687] Re: [bionic] no unattended installation

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Steve,

On 28 May 2018 at 22:47, Steve Langasek wrote:
| This was going to be my recommended approach, as it's the authoritative
| way to have a noninteractive install.  I haven't had a chance to look
| into the package yet given the holiday weekend.  Do you think there is a
| bug here that still warrants investigating, or do you think this was a
| configuration regression on your side?

I have the feeling that one important variable setting may have gotten
dropped at your end because if I look at my GH repo here:

   https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/tree/master/r-apt

you will see essentially identical Dockerfile setups that worked for

   precise
   trusty
   wily
   xenial
   yakkety
   zesty
   artful

and then all of a sudden failed for

   bionic

I will add the setting, but methinks you guys set it before. Or maybe one of
the Debian packages involved did.

Dirk

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Title:
  [bionic] no unattended installation

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Package: tzdata
  Version: 2018d-1
  Ubuntu release: 18.04

  There appears to be a regression with the preseeding data for tzdata in the 18.04 release.
  When running 

     apt-get install tzdata

  I now _always_ drop into an interactive selection of the timezone
  'area' and 'zone'. This was not the case before; it is also not the
  case in Debian 'unstable' right now.

  I looked into the postinst script, but I can't figure out where the
  preseeded info would be. I tried debconf-set-selections with a preseed
  file, but no luck.

  This blocks usage of tzdata in Docker containers and is there for a
  bit annoying.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: tzdata 2017c-0ubuntu0.17.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-41.46-generic 4.13.16
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-41-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun May 27 13:17:42 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-31 (147 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171017.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: tzdata
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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