On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 07:01:45PM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > Control: tags -1 - unreproducible > > > @ APT deities: could you please have a look at the bug report and tell > me your opinion? > > > Hi, > > 2016-01-10 16:56 Pavel Reznicek: > > > >Hi, > > > >>How/when does the errors show, when viewing the package information > >>screen, or with other operations? > > > >The error messages appears after running "Update package list" from the > >aptitude ncruses gui. Attached is a screenshot. > > Oh, I see, I can reproduce it now. It happens the same with "apt-get > update" (see below). > > The problem seems to be that the in the function RunScripts() from > libapt, when executing debtags (it has to be installed on the system), > the output of the program doesn't get silenced/captured in any way, just > printed to the terminal as it is. > > I don't know if the APT team can or will want to change this behaviour > (to add this output to the apt error mechanism, for example). It > doesn't seem to be a big problem for apt, not having curses interfaces, > but this might affect other users of the library. > > I am not sure if we can do much about this from aptitude's side, > otherwise.
Well, you could. You could open a pipe for stderr and read from it, and display that in an aptitude window. That is, do the following: 1. dup(STDERR_FILENO) = stderr_backup 2. pipe(&fds) 3. dup2(fd[1], STDERR_FILENO) Then you can read any stderr output from fd[0] and display it inside aptitude. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to (`inline'). Thank you. _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
