Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote: > >> (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum >> behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various >> failure situations [...] >> I did a quick test with 'apt-get' on Sarge, and found it returns exit >> status 100 in at least some of these situations (I didn't test all of >> them), so there seems to have been some regression here : > > apt-get is a different program. There's not a regression unless the > lack of error codes appears in apt-get in etch and later.
Agreed it's a different program (though I would guess it shares at least some code) - but what I meant was a regression in system functionality as a whole, rather than in 'aptitude' specifically. Sorry if I abused the term. Cheers, Nick Boyce -- 'If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]