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Bug#459344: closed by Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> (Bug#459344: fixed in apt 0.7.13)



Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> writes:

> On Fri, 02 May 2008 19:45:05 +0000 Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>
> [...]
>>    * Make cron script quiet if cache is locked. Thanks to Ted Percival
>>      <ted@midg3t.net> for the patch. Closes: #459344
>
> I don't quite agree with the way this patch is supposed to fix the
> issue.
>
> If /etc/cron.daily/apt has something to do on the system (because APT
> was configured accordingly), then, when the cache cannot be
> locked, /etc/cron.daily/apt cannot do its job and it should indeed exit
> *with errors* to alert the administrator that something went wrong!
>
> Only if /etc/cron.daily/apt has absolutely nothing to do on the system
> (because of APT configuration), it should do absolutely nothing and
> exit successfully, without even checking whether the cache can be
> locked!

Humm ... I think I agree with you. I still believe the possibility of
it happen is too rare but it looks saner to output an error.

Mind to propose a patch? If you don't do that, I'll prepare one for
next upload.

This is a minor thing and I'll wait for it go testing before doing
another upload.

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