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Diffstat (limited to 'cmdline/apt-mark')
| -rwxr-xr-x | cmdline/apt-mark | 8 |
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") |