attempting to fix naive system updater

the updater running from cron kept getting jammed up, with multiple possibly running at the same time.  this seems to be due to questions about using existing or new config files.  a fix suggested on internet says that dpkg needs to be told not to do that, and to just use the existing ones.

diff --git a/scripts/system/naive_system_updater.sh b/scripts/system/naive_system_updater.sh
index dbad94fb88203bd2c35a114578f9391fdbaa3891..08cd526647dad3869d960888c92a576542cfdc68 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/system/naive_system_updater.sh
+++ b/scripts/system/naive_system_updater.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ source "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/core/launch_feisty_meow.sh"
 
 sudo apt-get update -y
 check_result "problem while doing 'apt-get update'"
-sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
+# new magic to tell dpkg to go with existing config files.  let's see if it works!
+sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold"
 check_result "problem while doing 'apt-get dist-upgrade'"