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-rwxr-xr-xcmdline/apt-mark8
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog3
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 4ac6eed27..51f6cdfa1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ apt (0.7.25) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc:
- allow also to skip the last patch if target is reached,
thanks Bernhard R. Link! (Closes: #545699)
+ * 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: