Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:42:58AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:49:07PM -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > bts tag 233129 d-i > > Hm, that's an interesting one. It looks like the apt fetcher claims > that the update succeeded even when som

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:49:07PM -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > bts tag 233129 d-i Hm, that's an interesting one. It looks like the apt fetcher claims that the update succeeded even when some sources failed, so I have to iterate the list of download items after the

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:56:53PM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > > > >> (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum > >> behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in var

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-13 Thread Joey Hess
bts tag 233129 d-i thanks Daniel Burrows wrote: > I'm currently busy working on other parts of the program. If you want > this in a hurry your best bet is to either send a working patch to a bug > report or (if such a patch already exists) to harass me via email until > I apply it. :-) Prefera

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:57:55PM +, Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > ... If you want this in a hurry your best bet is to either > > send a working patch to a bug report or (if such a patch > > already exists) to harass me via email until I apply i

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Boyce
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > >> Does anyone think another bug report is called for ? >> It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour >> needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO l

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Boyce
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > >> (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum >> behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various >> failure situations [...] >> I did a quick test with 'apt-get'

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Does anyone think another bug report is called for ? > It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour > needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO list. I'm currently busy work

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > In the course of scripting some aptitude upgrade activity I've found > that (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum > behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various > failure situations, wh

aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-12 Thread Nick Boyce
In the course of scripting some aptitude upgrade activity I've found that (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various failure situations, which is unhelpful, to say the least. For example: Although it helpf