Barry, the second argument is a boolean indicating is the action was successful or not. For the aptdaemon backend its set to false if the use is not authorized to do the check. I dont know if we can get this information for the synaptic backend. We can assume that its always true for synaptic since it can only run as root. A possible patch would be:
Barry, the second argument is a boolean indicating is the action was successful or not. For the aptdaemon backend its set to false if the use is not authorized to do the check. I dont know if we can get this information for the synaptic backend. We can assume that its always true for synaptic since it can only run as root. A possible patch would be:
--- /usr/lib/ python2. 7/dist- packages/ UpdateManager/ backend/ InstallBackendS ynaptic. py 2010-09-07 17:30:58.000000000 +0200 backend/ InstallBackendS ynaptic. py 2010-11-11 19:24:34.000000000 +0100
tempf. close() "action- done", action) "action- done", action,True)
+++ UpdateManager/
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
action, tempf = data
if tempf:
- self.emit(
+ self.emit(
def update(self): at-startup" ]
opt = ["--update-