add-apt-repository - New confirmation dialog breaks existing scripts
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Software Properties |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | |
| | software-properties (Ubuntu) |
Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Existing scripts (and ensemble formulas) that have depended upon add-apt-repository in the past for importing PPAs are no longer functional on oneiric since:
77. By Martin Pitt on 2011-08-15
[ Michael Vogt ]
* softwarepropert
- show PPA description and confirm before adding
Related branches
- Ubuntu Core Development Team: Pending requested 2011-08-19
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Diff: 30 lines (+4/-2)1 file modifiedadd-apt-repository (+4/-2)
- No reviews requested
| affects: | software-properties (Ubuntu) → software-properties |
| affects: | ubuntu → software-properties (Ubuntu) |
| Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : | #1 |
| Changed in software-properties: | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| Changed in software-properties: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #2 |
This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.81.9
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software-properties (0.81.9) oneiric; urgency=low
* lp:~gandelman-a/software-properties/lp829109 :
- add "-y" to add-apt-repository (LP: #829109). This can be
used to avoid the confirmation prompt. Alternatively you
can redirect stdin to /dev/null for skipping of the confirmation
-- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:11:58 +0200
| Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Thanks! I merged and uploaded this now. Alternatively a user can simply redirect stdin to /dev/null to also skip the question.