Package: apt Version: 0.7.9 Severity: normal Hi!
As far as I understand (see APT configuration below), /etc/cron.daily/apt should do absolutely nothing on my system. Hence, it should basically behave as /bin/true . Unfortunately, it seems that it can also behave as /bin/false in some scenarios. I upgraded to version 0.7.9 yesterday, used my box for some time and then halted the system. Today, I booted the system, logged in, and started doing some things. After a short time I received a local mail message from Anacron: Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on $MY_HOST_NAME Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:16:47 +0100 run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/apt exited with return code 1 It seems that the problem is related to bug #454561, but it's not the same. If I read /etc/cron.daily/apt correctly, what happened is that, when Anacron ran it, I was just in the middle of a manual aptitude update ; aptitude safe-upgrade As a consequence, /etc/cron.daily/apt could not lock the cache and exited with exit status 1. My problem is: I didn't asked APT to do anything in an unattended manner, why should /etc/cron.daily/apt attempt to lock the cache and exit *with errors* when it fails to do so?!? I think that /etc/cron.daily/apt should *entirely* refrain from checking cache lockability or performing any other actions, *if* APT configuration implies that the script should do nothing at all. When APT configuration tells that /etc/cron.daily/apt should do nothing at all, it should behave exactly as /bin/true ... Is there anything I failed to understand? -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "amd64"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "1"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Acquire ""; APT::Acquire::Translation "environment"; APT::Authentication ""; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; Dir::Log "var/log/apt"; Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Tools ""; DPkg::Tools::Options ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2"; -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- deb http://mir2.ovh.net/debian/ testing main deb-src http://mir2.ovh.net/debian/ testing main deb http://debian.intergenia.de/debian/ testing main deb-src http://debian.intergenia.de/debian/ testing main deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.07.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-4 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
