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Re: [hobbit] apt plugin from debians hobbit-plugins package
- To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
- Subject: Re: [hobbit] apt plugin from debians hobbit-plugins package
- From: Christoph Berg <cb (at) df7cb.de>
- Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:49:26 +0200
- References: <49F9A58A.6080409 (at) schoot.org> <0ECC018F-9D3B-49EA-93AC-20385CEA8B2A (at) hands4christ.org> <20090430144406.294100 (at) gmx.net> <49F9C9E9.1060406 (at) makelofine.org>
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Re: dOCtoR MADneSs 2009-04-30 <49F9C9E9.1060406 (at) makelofine.org>
> On my side I just changed my crontab :
>
> apt-get update && touch /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
>
> so if the update is succesfull, the mtime of /var/lib/apt/lists/lock is
> changed, and the apt plugin reports green.
Ah, looks like using a lock file doesn't update the mtime. I didn't
notice until now as I'm using the "all-included" hack suggested in
apt.pl:
44 */4 * * * root ! apt-get -qq update 2>&1 | grep -q . && date -u > /var/lib/apt/update_success
Unfortunately apt-get update even returns 0 in case of some errors
(iirc unknown apt-keys etc.), so this command checks for an empty
output of apt-get -qq update instead.
(http://bugs.debian.org/526894)
Christoph
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