Your message dated Wed, 3 Dec 2025 12:49:44 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line closing has caused the Debian Bug report #1110526, regarding install_packages: filtering of unknown packages does not work to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: fai-client Version: 6.4.3 Severity: normal Tags: patch There is a typo in `/usr/sbin/install_packages` that disables filtering of unknown packages: ```diff --- /usr/sbin/install_packages.orig 2025-08-07 18:56:10.602397754 +0200 +++ /usr/sbin/install_packages 2025-08-07 19:13:33.965226946 +0200 @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ # @known contains the known packages # on Debian system, clean list of packages - if ( ! $opt_N && -f "$FAI_ROOT/usr/sbin/apt-cache" ) { + if ( ! $opt_N && -f "$FAI_ROOT/usr/bin/apt-cache" ) { @known = clean_pkg_list(@complete); } else { @known = @complete; ``` Result is that apt fails if there are any unknown or obsolete packages in your config. -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.0 APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages fai-client depends on: ii debconf-utils 1.5.91 ii file 1:5.46-5 ii iproute2 6.15.0-1 ii libfile-lchown-perl 0.02-4 ii perl 5.40.1-6 ii procps 2:4.0.4-9 ii zstd 1.5.7+dfsg-1 Versions of packages fai-client recommends: ii fdisk 2.41-5 ii util-linux 2.41-5 Versions of packages fai-client suggests: pn libgraph-perl <none> pn logtail <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/fai/fai.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- c u henning
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--- Begin Message ---Package: fai-client Version: 6.5 This bug was fixed in FAI 6.5. -- regards Thomas
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