I'm still seeing this exact problem on ubuntu 13.04. So I don't see how
this is fixed. Observe:
# sudo aptitude install packagedoesnotexist
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched
"packagedoesnotexist"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched
"packagedoesnotexist"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
# echo $?
0
** Description changed:
I have experienced two cases where aptitude returns a 0 exit status
code, even if it prints error messages to the terminal.
-
Case 1: A package cannot be installed due to unmet dependencies.
Example: (installing something that depends on sun-java on a host with the
"partner" repository disabled)
- > sudo /usr/bin/aptitude -y install hadoop-0.20
- Reading package lists... Done
- Building dependency tree
- Reading state information... Done
- Reading extended state information
- Initializing package states... Done
- The following packages are BROKEN:
- hadoop-0.20
- The following NEW packages will be installed:
- hadoop-0.20-native{a} liblzo2-2{a}
- 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
- Need to get 41.2MB of archives. After unpacking 92.3MB will be used.
- The following packages have unmet dependencies:
- hadoop-0.20: Depends: sun-java6-jre which is a virtual package.
- Depends: sun-java6-bin which is a virtual package.
- The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
-
- Keep the following packages at their current version:
- hadoop-0.20 [Not Installed]
- hadoop-0.20-native [Not Installed]
-
- Score is -9868
-
- Writing extended state information... Done
- Reading package lists... Done
- Building dependency tree
- Reading state information... Done
- Reading extended state information
- Initializing package states... Done
+ > sudo /usr/bin/aptitude -y install hadoop-0.20
+ Reading package lists... Done
+ Building dependency tree
+ Reading state information... Done
+ Reading extended state information
+ Initializing package states... Done
+ The following packages are BROKEN:
+ hadoop-0.20
+ The following NEW packages will be installed:
+ hadoop-0.20-native{a} liblzo2-2{a}
+ 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+ Need to get 41.2MB of archives. After unpacking 92.3MB will be used.
+ The following packages have unmet dependencies:
+ hadoop-0.20: Depends: sun-java6-jre which is a virtual package.
+ Depends: sun-java6-bin which is a virtual package.
+ The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
- > echo $?
- 0
+ Keep the following packages at their current version:
+ hadoop-0.20 [Not Installed]
+ hadoop-0.20-native [Not Installed]
+
+ Score is -9868
+
+ Writing extended state information... Done
+ Reading package lists... Done
+ Building dependency tree
+ Reading state information... Done
+ Reading extended state information
+ Initializing package states... Done
+
+ > echo $?
+ 0
Expected result: Non-zero exit status code
-
Case 2: The package name does not exist
Example:
- > sudo aptitude install bogus-package
- Reading package lists... Done
- Building dependency tree
- Reading state information... Done
- Reading extended state information
- Initializing package states... Done
- Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "bogus-package"
- Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "bogus-package"
- No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
- 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
- Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
- Reading package lists... Done
- Building dependency tree
- Reading state information... Done
- Reading extended state information
- Initializing package states... Done
+ > sudo aptitude install bogus-package
+ Reading package lists... Done
+ Building dependency tree
+ Reading state information... Done
+ Reading extended state information
+ Initializing package states... Done
+ Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "bogus-package"
+ Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "bogus-package"
+ No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
+ 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+ Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
+ Reading package lists... Done
+ Building dependency tree
+ Reading state information... Done
+ Reading extended state information
+ Initializing package states... Done
- > echo $?
- 0
+ > echo $?
+ 0
Expected result: Non-zero exit status code
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