On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:08:43 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:51:59 -0700 Ryan Niebur wrote: > > [...] > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:31:07PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > [...] > > > Well, I am not sure that this proposed new behavior (i.e.: exit with > > > non-zero status when a package does not exist) is a good idea. > [...] > > > The cron.daily job would try to > > > run /usr/share/apt-listbugs/aptcleanup, which would exit with error, > > > and hence the pinnings in /etc/apt/preferences would not be properly > > > cleaned up... > > > > > > > this is why we would have to adapt aptcleanup as well.. > > Fair enough. > > Just please make sure that apt-listbugs exits with a special unique > (non-zero) exit status, then, so that we can easily distinguish this > kind of error from other ones...
Ryan, another thing I've just realized: suppose a user has some unofficial repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list and installs or upgrades packages which are not present in the official Debian distribution; we want to avoid that the automatic (via /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs) "apt-listbugs apt" invocation exits with errors just because the Debian BTS knows nothing about those unofficial packages. As a consequence, I think the new behavior should be implemented for the "list" command only, and not for the "apt" command. -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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