Re: [webmin-l] Webmin ignoring packet states.

[Andrey R. <anr...@fr...>]

Greetings, Webmin users list!

>> >> I have subversion, libsvn1 and libapache2-svn held in state from updates, but
>> >> webmin constantly trying to bypass the lock.
>> >> Good that I'm the only administrator of this system...
>> 
>> > That sounds like a bug - which linux distro is this on, and how did you hold
>> > updates for those packages?
>> 
>> Ubuntu Linux (Hardy still, planning dist-upgrade in a week.)
>> The packets are locked in APT. apt-get and aptitude correctly see the lock and
>> don't upgrade packets, when prompted for system upgrade.
>> 
>> # LANG=en apt-get upgrade
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>   libapache2-svn libsvn1 subversion
>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
>> 
>> Or, perhaps, the status from aptitude would be more clear.
>> 
>> --\ Packages being automatically held in their current state
>> i A  libsvn1         1.6.17-0sv 1.7.7-0svn
>> i A  subversion      1.6.17-0sv 1.7.7-0svn
>> --\ Packages being held back
>> i    libapache2-svn  1.6.17-0sv 1.7.7-0svn
>> 
>> The package libapache2-svn is on hold, and the two other were installed as
>> it's dependency.

> If you run : apt-show-versions | grep libapache2-svn 

> what does it output? That's the command Webmin uss to determine which
> packages are available to upgrade.

# apt-show-versions | grep libapache2-svn
libapache2-svn/hardy upgradeable from 1.6.17-0svn1~hardy1 to 1.7.7-0svn2~hardy+svn2

Seems like it doesn't account for locking mechanics.
Neither does dpkg-query :(

# dpkg-query -l libapache2-svn
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Имя                   Версия             Описание
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
ii  libapache2-svn           1.6.17-0svn1~hardy1      Subversion server modules for Apache


You'd have to use libapt-pkg-perl directly to get full details, I'm afraid.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anr...@fr...) 23.02.2013, <22:58>

Sorry for my terrible english...