As I just wrote to the Debian bug, this is a little nuisance. If apt- cache show <package> does not have information about a package, it should exit with a nonzero status. This bug just bit me again (see bug 186943), in a freshly installed system "apt-cache show nvidia-glx" succeeds and prints nothing. This is counterintuitive behaviour and breaks the usual paradigm of writing scripts and checking its exit status.
-- `apt-cache show gphoto2' is silent and exits 0. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18306 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
