How is one supposed to know about this environment variable?
$ man ubuntu-security-status
No manual entry for ubuntu-security-status
$ ubuntu-security-status --help
usage: ubuntu-security-status [-h] [--thirdparty] [--unavailable]
Return information about security support for packages
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--thirdparty
--unavailable
Furthermore, the prior tool, ubuntu-support-status, did not need this
magic under-documented environment variable to work:
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Release:18.04
Codename: bionic
$ ubuntu-support-status
Support status summary of 'HOSTNAME':
You have 544 packages (14.4%) supported until April 2021 (Community - 3y)
You have 2274 packages (60.3%) supported until April 2023 (Canonical - 5y)
You have 3 packages (0.1%) supported until April 2021 (Canonical - 3y)
You have 72 packages (1.9%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
You have 876 packages (23.2%) that are unsupported
Your Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is supported until April 2023.
Run with --show-unsupported, --show-supported or --show-all to see
more details
Why can't ubuntu-security-status work out which Packages files have a
hash chain of trust that goes back to the ubuntu archive signing key,
and then determine security support status based on that?
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1878499
Title:
MY_MIRROR env could be better documented
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1878499/+subscriptions
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
