Package: apt
Version: 1.0.9.6
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
There are probably multiple problems but just to prove my case:
$ apt-config dump|grep metapackages
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages";
$ apt-cache show kali-desktop-common|grep -E 'Depends|Section'
Depends: kali-root-login, kali-defaults, kali-menu, kali-debtags,
kali-archive-keyring, desktop-base
Section: metapackages
Of those 6 packages, only kali-archive-keyring is already installed.
$ LANG=C sudo apt-get -s -o Debug::pkgDepCache::AutoInstall=true install
kali-desktop-common 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep "Setting NOT as auto-installed"
Setting NOT as auto-installed (direct Depends of pkg in
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections)
=> only one package is marked as manually installed instead of the the
5 missing dependencies
Trying it out with a real install:
$ sudo apt-mark showmanual >before
$ sudo apt-get -o Debug::pkgDepCache::AutoInstall=true install
kali-desktop-common
[...]
$ sudo apt-mark showmanual >after
$ diff -u before after
--- before 2015-07-23 08:44:47.182823170 +0000
+++ after 2015-07-23 08:49:14.712184832 +0000
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
cpio
cron
dash
+dconf-tools
debconf
debconf-i18n
debian-archive-keyring
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@
john
john-data
kali-archive-keyring
+kali-desktop-common
kmod
less
libacl1
And here we see that the package which is marked as manually installed is not
even a direct dependency of kali-desktop-common. It's a dependency of
kali-defaults which is not marked as a metapackage !
$ apt-cache show kali-defaults
Package: kali-defaults
Version: 2.0~16
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Devon Kearns <doo...@kali.org>
Installed-Size: 799
Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libglib2.0-bin,
dconf-tools, gnome-brave-icon-theme
Homepage: http://www.kali.org
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Filename: pool/main/k/kali-defaults/kali-defaults_2.0~16_all.deb
Size: 278164
SHA256: 7a318d8ee97d71e3a25d0925bad6baf40b52be044c03d29895de752d9eae17b2
SHA1: d4bb80391367f4e4e5facc35527098d3579bf678
MD5sum: 609484282a69ca96f6d527e9f37748fa
Description: Kali default settings
This package implements various default settings
within Kali.
Description-md5: 39bf1c4ba320c4ada4e9be47c053cad2
But dconf-tools is in section "oldlibs" and that's how it got matched!
$ apt-cache show dconf-tools|grep Section
Section: oldlibs
(I also saw this quickly when using -o Debug::pkgDepCache::Marker=true)
So this is all matching packages not based on the parent that brough the
packages in the
set of packages to install but on the package itself.
We want direct dependencies of metapackages to be marked as manually installed:
- when they are installed for the first time
- when they were already installed formerly as automatic dependency
- also when they are pulled by a metapackage which is itself a dependency of
another metapackage
It would be good to review all those cases to ensure that we fix this
comprehensively.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers squeeze-lts
APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-lts'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'),
(500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3
ii gnupg 1.4.19-3
ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.9.10
ii libc6 2.19-19
ii libgcc1 1:5.1.1-14
ii libstdc++6 5.1.1-14
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
ii aptitude 0.6.11-1+b1
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.1
ii python-apt 1.0.0~beta3
ii synaptic 0.81.4
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