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  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1693900
  3. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1693900

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Jens Elkner (jelmd) wrote :

When running 'apt-get update' (e.g. on a container install post-install script), apt-get return with exit code 0, even so it wasn't able to "update" properly. E.g.:

+ apt-get update
Err:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'de.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-security/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

It should be corrected to return useful exit code, so that scripts can take the appropriate actions ...