On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 04:26:35AM +0000, Brendan Byrd wrote:
> Package: unattended-upgrades
> Version: 0.62.2
> Severity: important
Thanks for your bugreport.
> The default values included in Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins do not
> work,
> especially for security upgrades, and is broken in several places:
>
> Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
> "${distro_id} stable";
> "${distro_id} $(distro_codename)-security";
>
> 1. The $(distro_codename) returns "n/a", which breaks any other origins
> that use it.
It uses lsb_relase -c (well, the python equivalent) - that gives me
"squeeze" on my box.
> 2. There is no such thing as stable-security or testing-security. The archive
> name does not exist.
Indeed, this was added with the intend to provide a config that works
out of the box on both debian and ubuntu. I changed that now (in
trunk) so that each distro gets its own config.
> 3. There does not appear to be a way to auto-update only Debian security
> updates without auto-updating everything. The only Origin that works for
> security.debian.org would be "Debian testing-updates" (if using testing). The
> apt.list could only include the security site, but that would break aptitude,
> preventing you from using it to upgrade the other stuff manually.
Indeed, that is a problem. I could add a (optional) matcher for "Label:
Debian-Security".
Cheers,
Michael
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on:
> ii apt 0.8.10 Advanced front-end for dpkg
> ii apt-utils 0.8.10 APT utility programs
> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration management
> sy
> ii lsb-release 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base version
> report
> ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze4 interactive high-level
> object-orie
> ii python-apt 0.7.100.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
> ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File:
> preserv
>
> unattended-upgrades recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests:
> ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent
>
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades changed [not included]
>
> -- debconf information:
> unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates: false
>
>
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