Package: apt Version: 1.2.10 Severity: wishlist I normally have the patch below applied to my /etc/cron.daily/apt file, which causes the apt cron job to loop until apt-get update succeeds. The switch to a systemd timer means I have to patch the file after every update since it is in /usr instead of in /etc. So it would be nice to have an option to enable this behaviour. The reason I added it is that when apt fails to update due to hash sum mismatches or whatever, sometimes it completely forgets about packages from the missing/broken suite and the loop mitigates this in my experience.
--- a/etc/cron.daily/apt +++ b/etc/cron.daily/apt @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ UPDATED=0 UPDATE_STAMP=/var/lib/apt/periodic/update-stamp if check_stamp $UPDATE_STAMP $UpdateInterval; then - if eval apt-get $XAPTOPT -y update $XSTDERR; then + if eval while ! apt-get $XAPTOPT -y update $XSTDERR \; do sleep 1m \; done ; then debug_echo "download updated metadata (success)." if which dbus-send >/dev/null 2>&1 && pidof dbus-daemon >/dev/null 2>&1; then if dbus-send --system / app.apt.dbus.updated boolean:true ; then -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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