[Rock-dev] Autoproj apt-get bug

Sylvain Joyeux sylvain.joyeux at dfki.de
Thu Nov 17 11:32:00 CET 2011


On 11/17/2011 07:55 AM, Charles Lesire-Cabaniols wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When using autoproj in osdeps mode, it launches 'sudo apt-get install'
> to get dependencies with the '-y' argument.
> My system (Ubuntu 10.04) complains that "-y is used without --force-yes".
>
> I had to add the --force-yes argument to the apt-get commands on the
> autoproj_bootstrap script, and on autoproj osdeps.rb file.
This is usually because a given install would need to do something that 
is dangerous, as e.g. uninstall critical packages.

I never saw that on Debian or Ubuntu, though. Would you have the console 
output of the actual update being tried by autoproj ?

Sylvain


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