Public bug reported:
While fixing bug 1813464 it occurred to me that it is not obvious that
the dist-upgrader tarball includes its own copy of invoke-rc.d and that
this has been complicated to debug more than once. The apport
information in that report was gathered by apt's dpkgpm.cc code and I
think we should extend that to gather additional information from the
environment at the time that the package installation failed. For
example the dist-upgrader sets the following:
os.environ["PATH"] = "%s:%s" % (os.getcwd()+"/imported",
os.environ["PATH"])
Gathering path from the environment would have made diagnosing bug
1813464 a lot easier. I tested modifying dpkgpm.cc with the following:
if(const char* env_p = std::getenv("PATH"))
fprintf(report, "EnvPATH: %s\n", env_p);
I then installed the crash-in-postinst package from the daisy-plucker-
seeds PPA and received a crash report with the EnvPATH key and value.
Its worth noting that when apport gathers environment information only a
white listed set of keys is gathered to prevent disclosing potentially
sensitive information. So we should look at what environment variables
the dist-upgrader sets and gather those at a minimum.
** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Status: New
** Tags: disco rls-ee-incoming
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apt's dpkgpm.cc WriteApportReport function should gather more data
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