Bug#76591: the wrong error message is displayed on interupt
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Sean Perry wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.3.19
> Severity: normal
>
> I Control-C'ed a download of packages and was told:
>
> 37% [20 gimp-data-extras 2598336/4750kB 54%]Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
> packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
> or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
> above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
> Press enter to continue.
>
> Which is obviously not the case here, apt was only downloading packages, not
> doing anything to them yet. Apt does try to configure anything, it just quits.
Hrm. Apt needs to have more fine tuned return values, so shell scripts can
run the write code paths.
----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----
Version: 3.12
GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL++++ P+ L++++ !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS--
PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z?
-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
----BEGIN PGP INFO----
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Finger Print | KeyID
67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E 63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP
AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG
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