On 8 June 2012 22:15, Roger Leigh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 09:55:03PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: >> For example, aptitude install may fail to download some packages but >> still manage to install others. In this case a non-fatal error has >> occured (non-fatal because some actions did succeed) and the exit >> status is 2. However, the exit status of 2 does not indicate that any >> actions did succeed, only that some may have. > > This is still, from my POV a fatal error. It failed to do what I > asked. From the sbuild POV, when we ask aptitude to install > build dependencies, we only want success when every one of those > is installed and configured. Anything less than that is a failure. > If it managed to install some of them, that's great, but it's still > a failure. Having a special return code for this situation is fine, > so long as it's not success ;-)
Aptitude is effectively hardcoded to be like 'apt-get install --fix-missing', thus it thinks it has done well to not install all packages. This situation will hopefully never again result in a successful exit status. _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
