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and subject line Closing 704087
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regarding unattended-upgrades: Crashes on codename matching
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704087: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704087
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: unattended-upgrades
Version: 0.79.5
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Recently, unattended-upgrades has started crashing with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 1011, in <module>
main(options)
File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 793, in main
allowed_origins=allowed_origins)
File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 75, in __init__
self.adjust_candidate_versions()
File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 92, in adjust_candidate_versions
if is_allowed_origin(pkg.candidate, self.allowed_origins):
File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 364, in is_allowed_origin
if match_whitelist_string(allowed, origin):
File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 272, in match_whitelist_string
what, token))
__main__.UnknownMatcherError: Unknown whitelist entry for macher 'n'
(token 'n=wheezy')
I haven't touched the configuration at all, so I'm pretty sure
this is a regression.
This might be related to #703401, where codename matching also results
in a crash (but with a different exception).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on:
ii apt 0.9.7.8
ii apt-utils 0.9.7.8
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8
ii lsb-release 4.1+Debian8
ii python 2.7.3-4
ii python-apt 0.8.8.2
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu3
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
unattended-upgrades recommends no packages.
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests:
ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.80-7
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades changed:
// Automatically upgrade packages from these origin patterns
Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern {
// Codename based matching:
// This will follow the migration of a release through different
// archives (e.g. from testing to stable and later oldstable).
// "o=Debian,n=squeeze";
// "o=Debian,n=squeeze-updates";
// "o=Debian,n=squeeze-proposed-updates";
// "o=Debian,n=squeeze,l=Debian-Security";
// Archive or Suite based matching:
// Note that this will silently match a different release after
// migration to the specified archive (e.g. testing becomes the
// new stable).
// "o=Debian,a=stable";
// "o=Debian,a=stable-updates";
// "o=Debian,a=proposed-updates";
// "origin=Debian,archive=stable,label=Debian-Security";
"o=${distro_id},n=${distro_codename}";
"o=${distro_id},n=${distro_codename}-updates";
"o=${distro_id},n=${distro_codename},l=Debian-Security";
};
// List of packages to not update
Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
// "vim";
// "libc6";
// "libc6-dev";
// "libc6-i686";
};
// This option allows you to control if on a unclean dpkg exit
// unattended-upgrades will automatically run // dpkg --force-confold
--configure -a
// The default is true, to ensure updates keep getting installed
//Unattended-Upgrade::AutoFixInterruptedDpkg "false";
// Split the upgrade into the smallest possible chunks so that
// they can be interrupted with SIGUSR1. This makes the upgrade
// a bit slower but it has the benefit that shutdown while a upgrade
// is running is possible (with a small delay)
//Unattended-Upgrade::MinimalSteps "true";
// Install all unattended-upgrades when the machine is shuting down
// instead of doing it in the background while the machine is running
// This will (obviously) make shutdown slower
//Unattended-Upgrade::InstallOnShutdown "true";
// Send email to this address for problems or packages upgrades
// If empty or unset then no email is sent, make sure that you
// have a working mail setup on your system. A package that provides
// 'mailx' must be installed. E.g. "[email protected]"
Unattended-Upgrade::Mail "root";
// Set this value to "true" to get emails only on errors. Default
// is to always send a mail if Unattended-Upgrade::Mail is set
Unattended-Upgrade::MailOnlyOnError "true";
// Do automatic removal of new unused dependencies after the upgrade
// (equivalent to apt-get autoremove)
//Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "false";
// Automatically reboot *WITHOUT CONFIRMATION* if a // the file
/var/run/reboot-required is found after the upgrade
//Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "false";
// Use apt bandwidth limit feature, this example limits the download
// speed to 70kb/sec
//Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "70";
-- debconf information:
* unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates: true
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: unattended-upgrades
Source-Version: 0.80
n=... is supported in 0.80 and newer. Older versions did not get the
necessary changes. As none of those versions are supported anymore,
I'm closing this bug.
--- End Message ---
