Package: apt Version: 1.0.9.6 Severity: important Hello,
when using the /etc/cron.daily/apt cronjob with APT::Periodic::Verbose set to anything below 3 it's basically impossible to catch errors because stderr output is thrown away (XSTDERR="2>/dev/null" which is used at various apt-get commands later on). Unfortunately this also means that all errors from apt-get update get discarded, which in turn means that no metadata update happens, ever. To reproduce, just configure APT to use a non-existing proxy like for example Acquire::http::Proxy "http://localhost:48080"; and run the cronjob (of course having enabled APT::Periodic in the APT config). The cronjob will happily exit with 0 and not produce any output. Cheers Wolfgang PS: Obviously it's also questionable if it's the right thing to do for apt-get update to exit with 0 when not a single configured repository can be reached. -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "false"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-headers-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-extra-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-signed-image-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-headers-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach-image-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-modules-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-kernel-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-backports-modules-.*-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-tools-3\.16\.0-4-686-pae$"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages ""; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-headers"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-image-extra"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-signed-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "kfreebsd-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "kfreebsd-headers"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "gnumach-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: ".*-modules"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: ".*-kernel"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-backports-modules-.*"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-tools"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections ""; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs"; APT::Get ""; APT::Get::List-Cleanup "false"; APT::Update ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: "[ ! -x /usr/bin/debtags ] || debtags update || true"; APT::Architectures ""; APT::Architectures:: "i386"; APT::Compressor ""; APT::Compressor::. 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Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.6.11-1+b1 ii dpkg-dev 1.17.23 ii python-apt 0.9.3.11 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org