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Bug#763757: apt-get: regression in command line parser



On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:56:50PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> The following works in 0.8.16~exp12 but fails in 1.0.1 and later:
> 
> mrvn@frosties:~% sudo apt-get install -y -- acl
> E: Command line option 'y' [from -y] is not known.
> 
> The trigger for this is the "--". Please bring support for "--" back.

-- is still supported, it just expected (in your case) install right
before or after the --, not an option in between, so as a workaround
just reorder your command a bit for now until a version with git commit
c4b91cbe7cd24126ead1c3fd4b89ff7069bcc148 [0] hits your system.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

[0] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/?id=c4b91cbe7cd24126ead1c3fd4b89ff7069bcc148

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