On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:20:44AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 5:14 AM Julian Andres Klode
> <julian.kl...@canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > I just realized I did not yet widely advertise that hirsute has a new
> > --error-on=any argument for apt{,-get} update that makes it also
> > consider transient errors as errors instead of warnings.
> >
> > I think a bunch of people asked for that in the past because they
> > implemented retry loops around that for like container startup.
> >
> > --error-on maps to the configuration option APT::Update::Error-Mode,
> > for folks who want to drop that into apt.conf or who need to pass it
> > unconditionally and keep older apts working, they can do -o
> > APT::Update::Error-Mode=any
> >
> > The patch is not big, I guess we can SRU it if we want to.
>
> Hi,
> I just stumbled across this in practice on 20.04 and found this email.
> What is the recommended way to have `apt-get update` exit failure when
> something fails on 20.04 and 18.04 ?
Nothing is available in older releases yet, it's hard to figure out if
you actually succeeded fetching everything or if everything failed to
DNS resolve or stuff.
I thought cloud-init had a hack for that, but maybe I'm wrong / was just
wishfully thinking.
I've queued it for the upcoming microreleases of apt, this will go back
to 18.04, not convinced I want to do a "final" update for 16.04.
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