Bug#776152: provide meaningful exit codes for network failures

[Patrick Schleizer <adrelanos@riseup.net>]

Julian Andres Klode:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 04:50:04PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
>> Package: apt
>> Severity: important
>>
>> When "apt-get update" fails the program exits with a 0 status.
>> It would be useful if it exited with a non-zero status in that case
>> (or if there were a switch to tell it to do so).
> 
> I disagree that it should do that. We just redefined successful update
> (for the success hook) to mean "not all sources failed". In case we
> fetch anything, that's still a success, as we update the cache with
> the new data.

Then perhaps have a new command line parameter? Such as 'apt-get
--strict update' or 'apt-get strict-update' or something like that?

Cheers,
Patrick