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| author | Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> | 2009-12-10 21:43:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> | 2009-12-10 21:43:34 +0100 |
| commit | 8b8fdb116138b3adea3ce3c1fd51b3016902c8a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 22a2e87beebce9119ac920a7f307d9350f07856b | |
| parent | 0cbd772a245b420fb84761dd8addbf0f45bb4013 (diff) | |
merged -r 1914..1915 from lp:~donkult/apt/sid
| -rwxr-xr-x | cmdline/apt-mark | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 3 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/cmdline/apt-mark b/cmdline/apt-mark index 226d2079b..c44ce7038 100755 --- a/cmdline/apt-mark +++ b/cmdline/apt-mark @@ -31,8 +31,12 @@ def mark_unmark_automatic(filename, action, pkgs): " mark or unmark automatic flag" # open the statefile if os.path.exists(STATE_FILE): - tagfile = apt_pkg.ParseTagFile(open(STATE_FILE)) - outfile = open(STATE_FILE+".tmp","w") + try: + tagfile = apt_pkg.ParseTagFile(open(STATE_FILE)) + outfile = open(STATE_FILE+".tmp","w") + except IOError, msg: + print "%s, are you root?" % (msg) + sys.exit(1) while tagfile.Step(): pkgname = tagfile.Section.get("Package") autoInst = tagfile.Section.get("Auto-Installed") diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 5830b8ad5..679753cfb 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ apt (0.7.25) UNRELEASED; urgency=low - bump policy to 3.8.3 as we have no outdated manpages anymore * debian/NEWS: - fix a typo in 0.7.24: Allready -> Already (Closes: #557674) + * cmdline/apt-mark: + - print an error if a new state file can't be created, + thanks Carl Chenet! (Closes: #521289) [ Chris Leick ] * doc/ various manpages: |