# there is a chance dpkg can actually do these, BUT this depends on the maintainerscripts (not) present
# which is very very risky to depend on (and apt doesn't know about that anyhow).
testfailure aptget install --reinstall predependsa predependsb -s -o Debug::pkgPackageManager=1
-testequal "E: Couldn't configure predependsa:i386, probably a dependency cycle." tail -n1 rootdir/tmp/testfailure.output
+testsuccess grep "^E: Couldn't configure predependsa:i386, probably a dependency cycle.$" rootdir/tmp/testfailure.output
# FIXME: the error message is a catch all here, not like the one above
testfailure aptget install --reinstall predependsdependsa predependsdependsb -s -o Debug::pkgPackageManager=1
-testequal "E: Could not configure 'predependsdependsb:i386'. " tail -n1 rootdir/tmp/testfailure.output
+testsuccess grep "^E: Could not configure 'predependsdependsb:i386'. $" rootdir/tmp/testfailure.output
msgmsg 'While we are at it, lets try these loops without reinstall as well'
# there is a chance dpkg can actually do these, BUT this depends on the maintainerscripts (not) present
# which is very very risky to depend on (and apt doesn't know about that anyhow).
testfailure aptget install predependsa predependsb -s -o Debug::pkgPackageManager=1
-testequal "E: Couldn't configure predependsa:i386, probably a dependency cycle." tail -n1 rootdir/tmp/testfailure.output
+testsuccess grep "^E: Couldn't configure predependsa:i386, probably a dependency cycle.$" rootdir/tmp/testfailure.output
# FIXME: the error message is a catch all here, not like the one above
testfailure aptget install predependsdependsa predependsdependsb -s -o Debug::pkgPackageManager=1
-testequal "E: Could not configure 'predependsdependsb:i386'. " tail -n1 rootdir/tmp/testfailure.output
+testsuccess grep "^E: Could not configure 'predependsdependsb:i386'. $" rootdir/tmp/testfailure.output