Package: apticron Version: 1.1.20 Severity: normal Tags: patch On line 70, apticron calls apt-get to download upgradeable packages:
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# do the upgrade downloads
/usr/bin/apt-get -qq -d --allow-unauthenticated dist-upgrade >&
/dev/null
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This fails if apt-get thinks it has to downgrade a package:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=C sudo /usr/bin/apt-get -y -d --allow-unauthenticated
dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libopenexr2c2a
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libiw29 libopenexr2ldbl python2.5 python2.5-minimal
The following packages have been kept back:
myspell-de-de
The following packages will be upgraded:
binutils blender cpuburn cups-pdf emacs21 emacs21-bin-common emacs21-common
email-reminder
gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-x ifrename kcontrol kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins
kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kdesktop
kfind kicker konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konsole kwin libavcodeccvs51
libavformatcvs51
libavutilcvs49 libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libgd2-xpm
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libid3-3.8.3c2a
libkonq4 libnm-glib0 libpcap0.8 libpostproccvs51 libslab0 myspell-en-gb
myspell-en-us netapplet
openexr openoffice.org-hyphenation-de paps reprepro scribus tcpdump
wireless-tools xkeycaps xterm
yafray
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
gaia
51 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 70.5MB/74.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 23.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $?
100
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
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(there are probably more reasons why it might fail...)
The solution is either to
a) add --force-yes to apt-get's parameters or to
b) explicitly ignore the exitcode from apt-get so bash's -e does not
kick in.
a) has the advantage that packages are still downloaded so I prefer
that :)
Thanks for your work,
Jö.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apticron depends on:
ii apt 0.7.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii apt-listchanges 2.74 Display change history from .deb a
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy
ii iproute 20070313-1 Professional tools to control the
ii mailutils [mailx] 1:1.1+dfsg1-3.1 GNU mailutils utilities for handli
apticron recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* apticron/notification: root
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