On 25 October 2012 04:44, <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: aptitude > > If one hits ^C during an upgrade, the upgrade does not stop > (probably to protect us from damage, OK) but near the end, we see > "W: Operation was interrupted before it could finish" > > > Please > 1) add an indication of what program (aptitude?) is giving the message. > 2) say what operation. > > # aptitude full-upgrade > ... > Installing new version of config file > /etc/java-7-openjdk/security/java.security ... > Setting up openjdk-7-jre-lib (7u3-2.1.3-1) ... > Setting up openjdk-7-jre:i386 (7u3-2.1.3-1) ... > W: Operation was interrupted before it could finish > > Current status: 0 updates [-71].
Hello The warning is from libapt-pkg, so aptitude is the program reporting it. The only indication of this is the familiar “W:” mark. While it may be useful to change APT to display GNU-style errors (“PROGRAM: MESSAGE”) there is a lot of inertia behind the current style. The operation is the entirety of what you asked aptitude to do, in this case full-upgrade. When APT receives SIGINT it will allow the current dpkg run to complete and abort before the next. There may be multiple dpkg runs for an operation to allow for package relationships such as Pre-Depends and Conflicts. This warning thus indicates that the operation requested on the command line was left incomplete. The APT and dpkg databases should be consistent, though some packages may be half-installed or missing dependencies, while others are not installed (or removed) at all. The term “operation” here seems to be quite useful as a general reference to any of the complex actions which may be requested of APT. I can not immediately think of any more useful replacement for the warning as a whole, however suggestions are welcome. Regards _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
