Re: using apt-listbugs

[Rick Reynolds <rick@rickandviv.net>]

Just an update about apt-listbugs.  It still seems to behave the same 
way, even when I'm running apt-get within an xterm (actually 
gnome-terminal).  Apt-get runs along as usual, then gets to this line:

Retrieving bug reports... Done

and seemingly hangs.  It is instead waiting for me to respond to the 
question:

[something overwritten in my terminal window] the above packages? 
[Y/n/?/...]

When I hit return, I'm answering the default 'Y'.  Note that this prompt 
is also after a good 10 or 20 lines of bug reports about the packages 
I'm installing, so it isn't just a one-off kind of thing.

It dawned on me that maybe I haven't been giving the full story about 
this.  I don't run apt-get straight, I run a little shell script I've 
put together that logs everything apt-get does, and I suspect this is 
the source of the problem.  The script basically rotates copies of the 
logfiles so that I have a record of the last 30 days of changes, then it 
runs the following:

/usr/bin/apt-get $* | tee -a $APT_LOG_FILE

I suspect that something isn't happy between tee and apt-listbugs.  This 
command works just fine for apt-get promptings (use the package 
maintainers copy of config files or mine, for instance).

Thanks,
Rick Reynolds
--
He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of 
wisdom. -- Gandalf