Debian Bug report logs - #1082896
Please provide a configuration option to set an environment variable

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Message #3 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Please provide a configuration option to set an environment variable

Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:22:07 -0700

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.22.11
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org

I'd love to be able to set an option in dpkg.cfg.d that causes dpkg to
set an environment variable when running any commands. This would make
it easy to, for instance, always set DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive for
apt/dpkg invocations, while not setting it systemwide in
/etc/environment.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: arm64

Kernel: Linux 6.10.9-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.8-6
ii  libc6        2.40-3
ii  liblzma5     5.6.2-2
ii  libmd0       1.1.0-2
ii  libselinux1  3.7-3
ii  libzstd1     1.5.6+dfsg-1
ii  tar          1.35+dfsg-3
ii  zlib1g       1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt            2.9.8
pn  debsig-verify  <none>

-- no debconf information

Message #8 received at 1082896@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, 1082896@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#1082896: Please provide a configuration option to set an environment variable

Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:41:11 +0200

On Fri, 2024-09-27 at 13:22:07 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.22.11
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org

> I'd love to be able to set an option in dpkg.cfg.d that causes dpkg to
> set an environment variable when running any commands. This would make
> it easy to, for instance, always set DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive for
> apt/dpkg invocations, while not setting it systemwide in
> /etc/environment.

I'm not sure that would be effective for debconf though, given that by
default it is doing pre-configuration via an apt hook.

Thanks,
Guillem

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