Report apt-get failures in install-build-deps.sh

build/install-build-deps.sh

 #!/bin/bash -e
 
 # Script to install everything needed to build chromium (well, ideally, anyway)
 # See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructions
 # and http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuild64Bit
 
 install_gold() {
   # Gold is optional; it's a faster replacement for ld,
   # and makes life on 2GB machines much more pleasant.
 
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   dbg_list=
 fi
 
 sudo apt-get update
 
 # We initially run "apt-get" with the --reinstall option and parse its output.
 # This way, we can find all the packages that need to be newly installed
 # without accidentally promoting any packages from "auto" to "manual".
 # We then re-run "apt-get" with just the list of missing packages.
 echo "Finding missing packages..."
-new_list="$(yes n |
-            LANG=C sudo apt-get install --reinstall \
-                         ${dev_list} ${lib_list} ${dbg_list} \
-                         $([ "$(uname -m)" = x86_64 ] && echo ${cmp_list}) \
-                         |
-            sed -e '1,/The following NEW packages will be installed:/d;s/^  //;t;d')"
+packages="${dev_list} ${lib_list} ${dbg_list}  
+                  $([ "$(uname -m)" = x86_64 ] && echo ${cmp_list})"
+echo "Packages required: $packages"
+new_list_cmd="sudo apt-get install --reinstall $(echo $packages)"
+if new_list="$(yes n | LANG=C $new_list_cmd)" || [ $? -eq 1 ]
+then
+  # We expect apt-get to have exit status of 1.
+  # This indicates that we canceled the install with "yes n|".
+  new_list=$(echo "$new_list" |
+    sed -e '1,/The following NEW packages will be installed:/d;s/^  //;t;d')
+  echo "Installing missing packages: $new_list."
+  sudo apt-get install ${new_list}
+else
+  # An apt-get exit status of 100 indicates that a real error has occurred.
 
-echo "Installing missing packages..."
-sudo apt-get install ${new_list}
+  # I am intentionally leaving out the '"'s around new_list_cmd,
+  # as this makes it easier to cut and paste the output
+  echo
+  echo "The following command failed: " ${new_list_cmd}
+  echo 
+  echo "It produces the following output:"
+  yes n | $new_list_cmd || true
+  echo
+  echo "You will have to install the above packages yourself."
+  echo 
+  exit 100
+fi
 
 # Some operating systems already ship gold
 # (on Debian, you can probably do "apt-get install binutils-gold" to get it),
 # but though Ubuntu toyed with shipping it, they haven't yet.
 # So just install from source if it isn't the default linker.
 
 case `ld --version` in
 *gold*) ;;
 * )
   # FIXME: avoid installing as /usr/bin/ld
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              sed -e 's/[.]so[.][0-9].*/.so/' |
              sort -u); do
     [ "x${i##*/}" = "xld-linux.so" ] && continue
     [ -r "$i" ] && continue
     j="$(ls "$i."* | sed -e 's/.*[.]so[.]\([^.]*\)$/\1/;t;d' |
          sort -n | tail -n 1)"
     [ -r "$i.$j" ] || continue
     sudo ln -s "${i##*/}.$j" "$i"
   done
 fi