Bug#153530: apt-get installs packages even if I say "n"
On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 01:01, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On 20 Jul 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 23:29, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > >
> > > > When running "apt-get -u -t testing upgrade", it prompts me
> > > > "Do you want to continue? [Y/n]". If I respond "n" (without the
> > > > double-quotes, of course), it begins the install:
> > >
> > > Er, I certinaly can't duplicate this. Are you sure you didn't press enter
> > > then n?
> >
> > Quite. You can see from the bug report exactly what I typed.
> > However, the next time I installed a package, I responded "N"
> > instead of "n", and apt-get aborted as expected.
>
> If you try it now does little n do as it should?
Yup. Looks like a bring-the-car-to-the-mechanic-and-it-works bug.
rebel:~# apt-get -u install popularity-contest
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dpkg-awk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dpkg-awk popularity-contest
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.7kB of archives. After unpacking 201kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n <<<<<<<<<<<<
Abort.
However, I have evidence that it didn't work last time. From the
original submission:
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org woody/main bsdmainutils 5.20020211-4.99
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