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I'm working with a system that invokes apt-get update from a Ruby Capistrano recipe. Capistrano cares (apparently) about the return code of the shell commands it executes. apt-get update is running into some missing urls (because the mirror I'm pointing to is incomplete), and when it finishes with a failure code, Capistrano stops processing the rest of the recipe. I need apt-get update to ignore the missing urls and let Capistrano at least try to go on with its life. I would have thought that apt-get --force-yes -y --ignore-missing update would have done it, but it didn't. Am I missing the right incantation to get apt-get to do what I want, or am I stuck with either surrounding it with some shell hackery to mask the errors or figuring out why the mirror is incomplete in the first place?
cbmanica
Posted 2012-11-21T01:18:30.997
Reputation: 165
If you want it always have a return value of success, why not use
apt-get update; true? – Dan D. – 2012-11-21T01:59:26.503Uh, right, yes, that would work. Although I'm still curious as to whether apt-get itself provides a mechanism to achieve this. – cbmanica – 2012-11-26T22:31:27.413