Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:09:57 -0800 From: NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>, Ahmed Kamal <email.ahmedkamal@googlemail.com>, freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Devops question: freebsd-update needs a real tty to run, problem for automation Message-ID: <CAGHfRMDXGMVh56C%2B9DtpK9QXuooFSQrxYakUpNA60gzVVbNZFg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54B5AA4C.7050307@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAG=rPVcLWgXR_7JabjbkCWK=SkrQrgcZmAS=Yde0mE3Qpz8Q=A@mail.gmail.com> <54B5AA4C.7050307@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 1/13/2015 5:11 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ahmed Kamal, a devops expert, is helping me to script the steps to
>> upgrade a cluster of FreeBSD machines. For certain machines,
>> we want to track the official FreeBSD releases and use freebsd-update
>> to install official updates.
>>
>> We found that when the invocation of freebsd-update was scripted
>> and not run via a real tty, we can into this error:
>>
>> "freebsd-update fetch should not be run non-interactively."
>>
>> There are various workarounds mentioned on various web pages.
>> However, should we modify freebsd-update so that it can work better
>> when not run via a real tty? This would make it more devops/automation
>> friendly.
>>
>> The closest thing I have found is "freebsd-update cron", which can fetch
>> the updates and run without a real tty. The only problem with
>> "freebsd-update cron"
>> is that it sleeps a random amount of time between 1 and 3600 seconds before
>> fetching the updates. This is OK when run in a cron job,
>> but not OK when run as part of a devops automation framework.
>>
>> Anybody have ideas as to the best way to proceed in fixing this in
>> freebsd-update?
>> --
>> Craig
>
>
> sed -i '' -e 's,-t 0 ];,-t 0 ] \&\& [ 0 -eq 1 ],' /usr/sbin/freebsd-update
>
> This is untested. We'll likely put it in Poudriere as well.
freebsd-update needs to grow a non-interactive option probably:
2375 read dummy </dev/tty
2376 ${EDITOR} `pwd`/merge/new/${F} < /dev/tty
2377 done < failed.merges
2378 rm failed.merges
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