On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:56:53PM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote: > > > >> (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum > >> behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various > >> failure situations > [...] > >> I did a quick test with 'apt-get' on Sarge, and found it returns exit > >> status 100 in at least some of these situations (I didn't test all of > >> them), so there seems to have been some regression here : > > > > apt-get is a different program. There's not a regression unless the > > lack of error codes appears in apt-get in etch and later. > > Agreed it's a different program (though I would guess it shares at least > some code) - but what I meant was a regression in system functionality > as a whole, rather than in 'aptitude' specifically. Sorry if I abused > the term. fair enough. meanwhile, looks like you got a fantastic response! A
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