Hey Pat! Can you please elaborate what the actual effect of this is? AFAIK apport needs the apt lists only to determine/validate the origin of a package (which we can/should work around on a system image indeed), but *not* to determine the Package:/Dependencies: fields. I. e. mapping files to packages and determining package versions should only require the dpkg database in /var/lib/dpkg/, *not* apt.
** Description changed: On the phone images the space required for the lists in /var/lib/apt/lists is excessive (around 70MB) for the device targets we have. The partition it currently resides in did not include this requirement when their size was specified. + Removing those prevents one from using apport-cli to report bugs about + packages that are from the -updates pocket. This is due to the fact that + apport will not allow one to report bugs about packages which it cannot + determine are from the official archive or a native origin PPA. + Possible solutions include generating the list dynamically as part of the writable partition or including a smaller simpler manifest. This report was inspired by bug #1471903 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1489410 Title: do not require apt lists to be pre-installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1489410/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
