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Bug#153530: apt-get installs packages even if I say "n"



On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 01:39:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

> 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

There are certainly ways that this output could have appeared, even if 'n'
was not the first key pressed.  For example, if you had a 'y' in the input
buffer, and then typed 'n' at the prompt, the string received by APT would
be 'yn', which would be interpreted as 'y'.

-- 
 - mdz


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