Package: unattended-upgrades
Version: 0.72.3
Severity: minor
Am running unattended-upgrades 0.72.3 from testing, but otherwise I'm
running squeeze.
I had apache2 installed:
aptitude install \
apache2{,-mpm-prefork,-utils,.2-bin,.2-common}=2.2.16-6+squeeze1
unattended-upgrades ran as scheduled, and successfully
security-upgraded all of the apache packages to +squeeze2. However, I
found the email sent out by unattended-upgrades misleading:
Unattended upgrade returned: True
Packages that are upgraded:
apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common
Packages with upgradable origin but kept back:
apache2
Package installation log:
(Reading database ... 28978 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace apache2 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 (using
.../apache2_2.2.16-6+squeeze2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apache2 ...
[...]
The ``kept back'' sentence made me think the apache2 package was not
upgraded, but you can see in the next paragraph that it was. Possibly
this has something to do with apache2 being a metapackage (?).
I did a little debugging. apache2 was the first package
unattended-upgrades tried a pkg.mark_upgrade() on. However,
check_changes_for_sanity() returns False because ``pkg
'apache2-mpm-prefork' now marked delete'', and so "apache2" was added
to pkgs_kept_back. After and despite this, a pkg.mark_upgrade() on
one of the other apache packages causes apache2 to be upgraded.
I notice that before the upgrade is performed, cache.get_changes()
contains the apache2 pkg, and at this point apache2's .marked_upgrade
== True. I wonder if you think it would be reasonable to use such
information when looking at pkgs_kept_back when constructing the email
message.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.36.4-x1-64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on:
ii apt 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii apt-utils 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 APT utility programs
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii lsb-release 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base version report
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze6 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-apt 0.7.100.1+squeeze1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv
unattended-upgrades recommends no packages.
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests:
ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades changed [not included]
-- debconf information excluded
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