There still is a whole bunch of repositories out there that don't have Contents file, so I also think that some way of suppressing messages about missing files (and the resulting emails if used in a cron job) would be good.
Actually, the annoying message is not produced by the programm code, but by the following line in "/etc/apt/apt-file:conf": > error_cmd = ( rm -f "<cache>/<dest>_tmp"; \ > echo "Can't get <uri>/dists/<dist>/Contents-<arch>.gz" ) One way to fix it, would be to change that configuration option to something like: error_cmd = ( rm -f "<cache>/<dest>_tmp"; \ [ -n "<missing_ok>" ] || \ echo "Can't get <uri>/dists/<dist>/Contents-<arch>.gz" ) in connection with the patch below. Maybe some configuration option to selectively suppress the message only for certain URLs like http://security.debian.org/ in connection with the "--non-interactive" option also would make sense? ... --- /tmp/apt-file 2008-08-23 18:57:55.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/bin/apt-file 2009-09-30 10:50:40.000000000 +0200 @@ -172,8 +172,9 @@ my $cache = $Conf->{cache}; my $arch = $Conf->{arch}; my $cdrom = $Conf->{cdrom_mount}; + my $missing_ok= $Conf->{missing_ok} ? 'missing_ok' : ''; foreach my $var ( - qw/host port user passwd path dist pkg + qw/host port user passwd path dist pkg missing_ok cache arch uri cdrom/ ) { @@ -487,6 +488,7 @@ "package-only|l" => \$Conf->{package_only}, "fixed-string|F" => \$Conf->{fixed_strings}, "non-interactive|N" => \$Conf->{non_interactive}, + "missing-ok|q" => \$Conf->{missing_ok}, "help|h" => \$Conf->{help}, "version|V" => \$Conf->{version}, ); -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
