Package: apticron
Version: 1.1.12
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
When using file: repositrories in sources.list the packages are not
cached in /var/cache/apt/archives and thus apticron can not generate the
changelog for those packages. The attached patch checks if the package
are in the cache and only run apt-listchanges in that case, instead of
always trying to run apt-listchanges.
It is not the correct solution but better than getting an obscure error
from apt-listchanges, and I'm not sure how to implement the correct
soulution.
/torkel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apticron depends on:
ii apt-listchanges 2.59-0.2 Display change history from .deb a
ii coreutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii iproute 20041019-3 Professional tools to control the
ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent
-- debconf information:
* apticron/notification: root
--- /usr/sbin/apticron.bak 2005-11-22 10:33:08.015936377 +0100
+++ /usr/sbin/apticron 2005-11-22 11:01:40.380577749 +0100
@@ -87,8 +87,13 @@
VER=`LC_ALL=en /usr/bin/apt-cache policy $PKG |\
/bin/grep Candidate: | /usr/bin/cut -f 4 -d \ `
VERFILE=`echo "$VER" | /bin/sed -e "s/:/%3a/g"`
- DEBS="$DEBS ${PKGPATH}${PKG}_${VERFILE}_*.deb"
- echo -e "\t"$PKG $VER
+ DEB="${PKGPATH}${PKG}_${VERFILE}_*.deb"
+ if [ -e ${DEB} ]; then
+ DEBS="$DEBS ${DEB}"
+ echo -e "\t"$PKG $VER
+ else
+ echo -e "\t$PKG $VER (Package details are not available)"
+ fi
done
/bin/cat <<EOF
@@ -98,11 +103,12 @@
Package Details:
EOF
-
- if [ -z "$LISTCHANGES_PROFILE" ] ; then
- /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --which=both --headers -f text $DEBS
- else
- /usr/bin/apt-listchanges -f text --profile=$LISTCHANGES_PROFILE
$DEBS
+ if [ "$DEBS" ]; then
+ if [ -z "$LISTCHANGES_PROFILE" ] ; then
+ /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --which=both --headers -f text
$DEBS
+ else
+ /usr/bin/apt-listchanges -f text
--profile=$LISTCHANGES_PROFILE $DEBS
+ fi
fi
/bin/cat <<EOF
