** Description changed: - When executing thoses commands, aptitude loops infinitely : + [Impact] - aptitude clean && aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade -d -y + Users of aptitude can not download updates in advance with the + intention of installing them later. One common use case is using + apt-cron to download all available updates at night then reviewing + and installing a subset of them later. + + The problem does not occur for all users, but can be traced to a + point where the download/install logic invokes dpkg even though it + is supposed to only download packages. + + [Test Case] + + * Wait for package updates to be available: + + # aptitude clean && aptitude update + […] + Current status: 6 updates [+6]. + + * Fetch the updates using -d (download only) and observe that + after the download, aptitude loops (appears stuck) without + ever exiting: + + # aptitude safe-upgrade -d -y + […] + Get: 5 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise/main insserv i386 1.14.0-2.1ubuntu2 [50.1 kB] + Get: 6 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise/main iproute i386 20111117-1ubuntu2 [441 kB] + Fetched 3574 kB in 0s (9562 kB/s) + + [Regression Potential] + + Small. + + * Small patch touching only one file. + + * Some of the updated logic can be checked against similar code + in apt/cmndline/apt-get.cc(InstallPackages). + + * Fixed in Debian sid since May with no regressions reported. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: aptitude 0.6.6-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic-pae 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Apr 7 10:36:46 2012 ProcEnviron: - TERM=linux - PATH=(custom, no user) - LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + TERM=linux + PATH=(custom, no user) + LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: aptitude UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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