On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 06:23:27AM +0200, Teodor wrote:
> Package: unattended-upgrades
> Version: 0.73.1
> Severity: wishlist
Thanks for your bugreport.
> The u-a execution from today had no packages to upgrade:
> | 2011-11-03 06:06:06,374 INFO Initial blacklisted packages:
> | 2011-11-03 06:06:06,375 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script
> | 2011-11-03 06:06:06,375 INFO Allowed origins are: ['o=Debian,a=testing']
> | 2011-11-03 06:06:08,892 INFO Packages that are auto removed: ''
> | 2011-11-03 06:06:08,893 INFO Packages that are upgraded:
> | 2011-11-03 06:06:08,900 INFO Writing dpkg log to '/var/log/unattended-
> | upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2011-11-03_06:06:08.899917.log'
> | 2011-11-03 06:06:19,078 INFO All upgrades installed
>
> The content of the specific 2011-11-03 log file is:
> | [ Rootkit Hunter version 1.3.8 ]
> | File updated: searched for 167 files, found 138
>
> These lines are produced by this config I've put in apt.conf.d/98rkhunter:
> | DPkg {
> | // Auto update the 'rkhunter' properties database
> | Post-Invoke { "which rkhunter >/dev/null && rkhunter --propupd"; };
> | };
>
> This allows me automatically update the rkhunter properties on manual or
> automatic packages upgrades. However, u-a somehow executes 'dpkg' even if
> no package is upgraded. Why?
Indeed, this is fixed now in trunk and will be part of the next
upload.
> In README.gz I read this:
> | All operations will be logged in /var/log/unattended-upgrades/. This
> | includes the dpkg output as well.
>
> This is fine when there is something to upgrade. But why execute 'dpkg' on
> every execution? Isn't there some other way to determine if there are some
> packages to upgrade?
See above, it was simply a bug, should be fixed in trunk now.
Cheers,
Michael
> Thanks
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=ro_RO.utf8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on:
> ii apt 0.8.15.9
> ii apt-utils 0.8.15.9
> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41
> ii lsb-release 3.2-28
> ii python 2.7.2-9
> ii python-apt 0.8.0
> ii ucf 3.0025+nmu2
>
> unattended-upgrades recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests:
> pn bsd-mailx <none>
>
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades changed:
> // Automatically upgrade packages from these (origin, archive) pairs
> Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern {
> "o=Debian,a=testing";
> // "origin=Debian,label=Debian-Security,archive=stable";
> // "o=Debian,a=stable";
> // "o=Debian,a=oldstable";
> // "o={distro_id},a=${distro_codename}-proposed-updates";
> };
> // List of packages to not update
> Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
> // "vim";
> // "libc6";
> // "libc6-dev";
> // "libc6-i686";
> };
> // This option allows you to control if on a unclean dpkg exit
> // unattended-upgrades will automatically run
> // dpkg --force-confold --configure -a
> // The default is true, to ensure updates keep getting installed
> //Unattended-Upgrade::AutoFixInterruptedDpkg "false";
> // Split the upgrade into the smallest possible chunks so that
> // they can be interrupted with SIGUSR1. This makes the upgrade
> // a bit slower but it has the benefit that shutdown while a upgrade
> // is running is possible (with a small delay)
> //Unattended-Upgrades::MinimalSteps "true";
> // Send email to this address for problems or packages upgrades
> // If empty or unset then no email is sent, make sure that you
> // have a working mail setup on your system. The package 'mailx'
> // must be installed or anything that provides /usr/bin/mail.
> Unattended-Upgrade::Mail "root";
> // Set this value to "true" to get emails only on errors. Default
> // is to always send a mail if Unattended-Upgrade::Mail is set
> Unattended-Upgrade::MailOnlyOnError "true";
> // Do automatic removal of new unused dependencies after the upgrade
> // (equivalent to apt-get autoremove)
> Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true";
> // Automatically reboot *WITHOUT CONFIRMATION* if a
> // the file /var/run/reboot-required is found after the upgrade
> //Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "false";
> // Use apt bandwidth limit feature, this example limits the download
> // speed to 70kb/sec
> Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "6144";
>
>
> -- debconf information:
> * unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates: true
>
>
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