Those come from dpkg, not APT.
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** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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Title:
apt-get -q flag fails to squelch status -qq hides everything
To manage
can't test on a natty box, because I hate unity, but in lucid/maverick
even this documented behaviour is broken:
$ sudo apt-get remove -y -q=2 some_package |tee foo
$ cat -v foo
(Reading database ... ^M(Reading database ... 5%^M(Reading database ...
10%^M(Reading database ... 15%^M(Reading databa
Changing the meaning of -qq might have worked thirteen or maybe even
teen years ago, now everything (and your dog) depends on that behavior,
so you will make a lot of people and scripts very angry for literally no
reason. As i already said, the complete description of -q is "produces
output suitabl
Your reply doesn't actually help. This is a clear bug. It's either a
docs bug (in which case the documentation should clearly state that
progress information, such as while file is being read, cannot be
silenced without silencing the entire program); or the program doesn't
behave the way the docume
Hmm, that was overly verbose (not to mention, typo-ridden). Here's the
short version: there's currently no way to squelch the output to a non-
verbose, "did it work or not and why?" However, the documentation, as it
reads now seems to imply that such a thing is possible. The
documentation should ei
Progress indicators are these spinning wheels, the digits progressing slowly
from 0 to 100 (%) and all that stuff. As the manpage says quiet level 1
"produces output suitable for logging" thousands of lines saying
Reading package lists... 0%
Reading package lists... 0%
Reading package lists... 1
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