Bug#260146: apt-get update -m does not work anymore

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

severity 260146 wishlist
thanks

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:50:30PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

>   since latest apt-get update my DSelect::UpdateOptions "-m" stopped
> working, as for unknown reason apt-get update now ignores -m, and always
> reports error code 100 when some package lists failed to download.
> 
>   I need this feature because not all sites I'm downloading packages from
> are always up, and currently when this happens, apt internal
> package list IS updated in such situation, but dselect's list is left
> alone (which I think is broken itself), not knowing about new and updated
> packages available.
> 
>   For now I've applied change below - which IMHO is correct thing to do
> anyway, as both apt and dselect available package lists should be always
> in sync as much as possible.
> 
>   If you'll apply something like patch below, then I can live without
> update -m being resurrected. Otherwise please give me option to accept
> only some downloaded package lists back.

I do not think -m/--fix-missing has ever been applicable to apt-get update.
As documented, it only applies to the downloading of packages (not package
indexes).

-- 
 - mdz