Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.0.84 Severity: normal
When installing with apt-get -y --force-yes somepackage, any bugs found stop the installation process. That’s a problem with unattended installations. For example, Webmin has a feature to install packages from its Web interface: -%<---- Installing package(s) with command apt-get -y --force-yes -f install bind9 .. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Suggested packages: bind9-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: bind9 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 317kB of archives. After unpacking 844kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.freenet.de etch/main bind9 1:9.3.4-2etch1 [317kB] serious bugs of bind9 (-> 1:9.3.4-2etch1) #408701 - FTBFS: PPC asm Summary: bind9(1 bug) **************************************************************************** ****** Exit with an error by force in order to stop the installation. ****** **************************************************************************** Fetched 317kB in 0s (2159kB/s) .. install failed! -%<---- To my mind, --assume-yes --force-yes should silence apt-listbugs. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-53.el5.028stab051.1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on: ii apt 0.7.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libdpkg-ruby1.8 0.3.2 modules/classes for dpkg on ruby 1 ii libhttp-access2-ruby1.8 2.0.6-3 HTTP accessing library for ruby ii libintl-gettext-ruby1.8 0.11-10 Gettext wrapper for Ruby 1.8 ii liblocale-ruby1.8 0.1-6 extension to the Ruby intepreter f ii libruby1.8 [libzlib-ruby1.8] 1.8.6.111-2 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1. ii libxml-parser-ruby1.8 0.6.8-3 Interface of expat for the scripti ii ruby 1.8.2-2 An interpreter of object-oriented apt-listbugs recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
