On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 01:01, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On 20 Jul 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 23:29, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > > > > When running "apt-get -u -t testing upgrade", it prompts me > > > > "Do you want to continue? [Y/n]". If I respond "n" (without the > > > > double-quotes, of course), it begins the install: > > > > > > Er, I certinaly can't duplicate this. Are you sure you didn't press enter > > > then n? > > > > Quite. You can see from the bug report exactly what I typed. > > However, the next time I installed a package, I responded "N" > > instead of "n", and apt-get aborted as expected. > > If you try it now does little n do as it should?
Yup. Looks like a bring-the-car-to-the-mechanic-and-it-works bug. rebel:~# apt-get -u install popularity-contest Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dpkg-awk The following NEW packages will be installed: dpkg-awk popularity-contest 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 20.7kB of archives. After unpacking 201kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n <<<<<<<<<<<< Abort. However, I have evidence that it didn't work last time. From the original submission: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org woody/main bsdmainutils 5.20020211-4.99 -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment | | by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding." | | Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v US (1928) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
