Ubuntu
apturl package

please provide meaningful exit codes

Bug #132276 reported by Alexander Sack
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apturl (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apturl

callers of apturl should be able to recognize whether:

 1. installation succeeded
 2. installation cancelled
 3. Installation failed

Nice to have:

 4. Installation failed due to missing permissions (not in admin group)

Please introduce special exit codes for these cases.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/apturl
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

This is unfortunately not trivial as gksu (used to call synaptic) does not propergate the exit status. In any case, if something goes wrong there will be a clear error message from synaptic.

Changed in apturl:
assignee: nobody → mvo
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
importance: High → Medium
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in apturl:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

It returns the following exit codes now:

(RESULT_OK,
 RESULT_CANCELT,
 RESULT_ERROR) = range(3)

(from 0-2)

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apturl - 0.2.0ubuntu1

---------------
apturl (0.2.0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * apturl:
    - run gtk.init_check() (LP: #197062)
    - make the description better (split into summary/long descr)
    - fix filename creation (LP: #138315)
    - typo (LP: #200504)
    - return proper exit codes on success/cancel/failure (LP: #132276)
    - only run if the apt cache is not broken
  * data/apturl.glade:
    - default button is 'no'
    - make it resizable
  * po/POTFILES.in:
    - add missing files (LP: #173846)
  * date/apturl.schemas.in, setup.py:
    - register apturl in gnome as a protocol

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:15:57 +0100

Changed in apturl:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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