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| author | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-06-17 10:52:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-06-17 10:52:28 -0400 |
| commit | d33aa99c9d9656e7f24e4cdce4881f893b29a4c7 (patch) | |
| tree | b36fd236b31d05301c873e71dfdecbdac8f602f9 /doc | |
| parent | eb924d1d0214ef453ab9e2ab86ead314bccb3f59 (diff) | |
Apt.install: When asked to install a package that apt does not know about, it used to incorrectly succeed. Now it will fail.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/Apt.install_return_ok_even_if_asked_something_impossible/comment_1_9ce26e0a77c118c3b75bb00827a880b9._comment | 18 |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Apt.install_return_ok_even_if_asked_something_impossible/comment_1_9ce26e0a77c118c3b75bb00827a880b9._comment b/doc/forum/Apt.install_return_ok_even_if_asked_something_impossible/comment_1_9ce26e0a77c118c3b75bb00827a880b9._comment new file mode 100644 index 00000000..de841793 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Apt.install_return_ok_even_if_asked_something_impossible/comment_1_9ce26e0a77c118c3b75bb00827a880b9._comment @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2016-06-17T14:31:35Z" + content=""" +Implementation has: + + check (isInstallable ps) go + +So, if the packages are not isInstallable, nothing is done, and the property +succeeds. + +I think this check was intended to avoid running apt-get install unncessarily +when the packages are already installed. However, isInstalled doesn't +differentiate between a package being already installed and not available. + +So, fixing. +"""]] |