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authorDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2009-11-25 22:47:45 +0100
committerDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2009-11-25 22:47:45 +0100
commitd8c6a87aef1f76647d424c6b05641ac0ff53a6a8 (patch)
treeb176fb37a156fbb9ce28a13a787f5fb63b28e0b0 /cmdline/apt-mark
parent8a3207f42741ce9ccf68f9a0e6528622f8f6e6c2 (diff)
print an error if a new state file can't be created in apt-mark,
thanks Carl Chenet! (Closes: #521289)
Diffstat (limited to 'cmdline/apt-mark')
-rwxr-xr-xcmdline/apt-mark8
1 files changed, 6 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")