Webmin / Bugs / #4320 debian unstable: software packages updates not working

#4320 debian unstable: software packages updates not working

Milestone: 0.82

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2013-11-15

Created: 2013-11-12

Creator: ryates

Private: No

Both webmin 1.660 and 1.662 fail to detect available debian package updates in "Software Packages Updates" but do so in relevant sub-section of "Software packages". "apt-show-versions | grep xxxxxxx" reveals the update info for each package.

I don't believe the debug log is useful but will post if asked for. Anything else, just ask.

Discussion

Jamie Cameron - 2013-11-13

Can you post the output from apt-show-versions on your system? Also, the name of a package that should be updated.

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ryates - 2013-11-13

Herewith. Confirmed again that Webmin does not display these updates, as decsribed.

apt_get_dist_upgrade.txt

apt_show_versions.txt

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Jamie Cameron - 2013-11-14

status: open --> closed-fixed
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Jamie Cameron - 2013-11-14

Thanks - it looks like the apt-show-versions format has changed. I will support this in the next Webmin release.

The source patch is also available from https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/a3da5b582635a7815e469b508dfc7862d7a3ef28

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- ryates - 2013-11-14
  
  Hi, I applied the patch. Now just ifupdown is shown as updateable; others such as gcc-4.8-base do not. My previously attached files still apply.
  
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  - ryates - 2013-11-14
    
    Belay that! I had reloaded webmin, cleared cache, refreshed package list and ifupdown was all there was to see. A few hours later and the rest showed up properly. Strange but happy result. Sorry for the noise.....
    
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Jamie Cameron - 2013-11-14

Ok, great! Maybe the old incorrect information was cached.

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- ryates - 2013-11-14
  
  Sorry Jamie, I was inattentive. The updates that indeed showed in addition to ifupdown were new. The earlier updates that appeared along with ifupdown still remain invisible (saw them via CLI). Names with integers seems to be the commonality, as the new attachments suggest (the updates that showed had letter-only names). None of the updates recorded in the new attachments show up in "Software Packages Updates".
  
  Last edit: ryates 2013-11-14
  
  apt_get_dist_upgrade.txt
  
  apt_show_versions.txt
  
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Jamie Cameron - 2013-11-14

So it looks like the package gcc-4.8-base is one of those that doesn't get detected as upgradeable.

If you run "dpkg --list gcc-4.8-base" , what output do you get?

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- ryates - 2013-11-14
  
  Herewith
  
  dpkg_list.txt
  
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ryates - 2013-11-14

On tor, 2013-11-14 at 22:50 +0000, Jamie Cameron wrote:

dpkg --list gcc-4.8-base

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Jamie Cameron - 2013-11-15

If you go to System -> Software Packages and search for gcc, does it show the package name as "gcc-4.8-base" or "gcc-4.8-base:i386" ?

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- ryates - 2013-11-15
  
  gcc-4.8-base:i386 4.8.2-2
  
  That's the entire listing under heading "Package"
  
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Jamie Cameron - 2013-11-15

Ok, it looks like the architecture is appended to the package name.

This commit should fix that : https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/c92fae518df4ca8fd0b8be4f593868654b77f565

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ryates - 2013-11-15

Latest commit fixes issue. Thanks.

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