Brian, the hack doesn't seem workable. Touching channel.ini would then flag all images as being supported, which isn't true. It's unclear what knock-on effects we would have touching this file (i.e. what other tools see it and take different code-paths). The existence of the file indicates that the image is a read-only system image, this is untrue for minimal.
I would still like to see this resolved, even if that is just an improvement in the error message suggesting 'apt-get update' and retrying. Hack details: * packaging-apt-dpkg.py, is_distro_package(): If there is no origin and /etc/system-image/channel.ini exists, assume the package is from a read-only system image and accept it as distro package. With this we don't need /var/lib/apt/lists/ indexes any more just to confirm the origin. (LP: #1489410) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1775219 Title: incorrectly reports package as unsupported if apt cache is empty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1775219/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
