juliank, Do you mean ppa-purge should be translated to completely different programming language, and that I can not even rely on apt-get outputting something that matches '^Err[ :]' to stdout in such cases? Sounds difficult.
What do you mean by "Our results are boolean, we might not be able to really influence the exit status." I do not understand why the "results" could not be changed to be something else. You say: "You don't want to prevent the system from being upgraded (in an update&&upgrade type scenario) just because some third party repository disappeared." Something like 'apt-get update || [ $? -ne "$FATAL_APT_UPDATE_ERROR" ] && apt-get upgrade' in command line would let upgrade happen even in case of partially successful update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1693900 Title: apt-get update should return exit code != 0 on error To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1693900/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
