FYI:
I have no time to investigate it. If someone else can
reproduce/comment/fix, it would be appreciated.
Mirek
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Bug#708182: apt-transport-spacewalk always tries to install
packages that are already installed
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org>
Package: apt-transport-spacewalk
Version: 1.0.6-2.1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
1. install apt-transport-spacewalk
2. register to a spacewalk server
3. install a package from the spacewalk server
4. run apt-get upgrade
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
run apt-get upgrade
* What was the outcome of this action?
apt-get attempts to install packages that are alreay installed.
root@ms:~# apt-get -V upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt-transport-spacewalk (1.0.8-2 => 1.0.8-2)
python-rhn (2.5.55-2 => 2.5.55-2)
rhn-client-tools (1.9.10-2 => 1.9.10-2)
rhnsd (4.9.15-2 => 4.9.15-2)
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/664 kB of archives.
After this operation, 676 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
* What outcome did you expect instead?
apt-get should not try to install a package that is already installed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt-transport-spacewalk depends on:
ii apt 0.9.7.8
ii python 2.7.3-4
ii python-apt 0.8.8.2
ii rhn-client-tools 1.9.10-2
Versions of packages apt-transport-spacewalk recommends:
ii rhnsd 4.9.15-2
apt-transport-spacewalk suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--
Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Systems Management Engineering
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