Bug#552471: 'aptitude--no-gui', without space, called when aptitude gets root

2009-10-26 Thread Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.0.1-1 Severity: important When ncurses-based aptitude needs to become root and after it has asked for the password, it seems to be calling (from a bash script) 'aptitude--no-gui' (without intervening space), which causes, naturally enough a failure (with the

Bug#552471: 'aptitude--no-gui', without space, called when aptitude gets root

2009-10-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 03:34:03PM +0100, Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz j...@gnu.org was heard to say: When ncurses-based aptitude needs to become root and after it has asked for the password, it seems to be calling (from a bash script) 'aptitude--no-gui' (without intervening space), which

Bug#552471: 'aptitude--no-gui', without space, called when aptitude gets root

2009-10-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
By the way, a workaround would be to use sudo instead, if that's acceptable at your site. The sudo code doesn't have this bug. To do that, set Aptitude::Get-Root-Command to sudo in apt.conf. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of