[Bug 1693900] Re: apt-get update should return exit code != 0 on error

[Julian Andres Klode]

You should probably use an API for that (like python-apt), rather than
the command-line tools. We will have to rework error handling if we ever
want to retry automatic updates on failures, but it's not entirely clear
how this will happen yet.

In any case, I do consider an update where not all repositories were
updated a success. But I think some repository should update.

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Title:
  apt-get update should return exit code != 0 on error

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  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 ...

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