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bsdinstall: redirect stdin from /dev/null
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Authored by emaste on Apr 29 2025, 1:03 AM.
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pkgbase
Summary
In earlier pkgbase experiments pkg was not installed and the
/usr/sbin/pkg bootstrap tool stalled on [ttyin] waiting for a Y/n
response about installing pkg.

Although I do not believe this case will occur now, we do expect pkg to
be used in non-interactive mode so this will avoid future similar cases.

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I don't think this is necessary, pkg(7) reads the ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES environment variable and should never ask for user confirmation if it is set.

If that is not happening for some reason, I believe the bug should be fixed in pkg(7) rather than worked around here.