[hobbit] apt plugin from debians hobbit-plugins package

Re: dOCtoR MADneSs 2009-04-30 <49F9C9E9.1060406 at makelofine.org>

On my side I just changed my crontab :

apt-get update && touch /var/lib/apt/lists/lock

so if the update is succesfull, the mtime of /var/lib/apt/lists/lock is changed, and the apt plugin reports green.

Ah, looks like using a lock file doesn't update the mtime. I didn't notice until now as I'm using the "all-included" hack suggested in apt.pl:

44 */4 * * * root ! apt-get -qq update 2>&1 | grep -q . && date -u > /var/lib/apt/update_success

Unfortunately apt-get update even returns 0 in case of some errors (iirc unknown apt-keys etc.), so this command checks for an empty output of apt-get -qq update instead.

(http://bugs.debian.org/526894)

Christoph

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