Dell Recovery

Marking upgradable packages for installation doesn't actually upgrade them

Bug #604585 reported by Bryan Wu
16
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Dell Recovery
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

The dell-bootstrap plugin adds functionality to ubiquity to be able to install debian packages from debs/main on the installation media during installation.

Unfortunately this doesn't work properly when the package is already installed in the livefs. Trying to mark it for installation doesn't cause it to get upgraded.

This appears to be caused by ubiquity ignoring packages that are already installed when it actually goes to do the installation.

See original description
Mario Limonciello (superm1)
Changed in dell-recovery:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

Turns out this is caused by the way ubiquity handles package installation. I'll add a ubiquity task, adjust the bug and fix it there.

Changed in dell-recovery:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
summary: - Can't reinstall an already-installed .debs even if they are placed in
- ./debs/main
+ Marking upgradable packages for installation doesn't actually upgrade
+ them
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.3.3

---------------
ubiquity (2.3.3) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Disable the "Installing the System" title before Ubiquity comes up
    in automatic mode to prevent confusion before it actually does damage
    in case there are any confirmation screens that should come up first.
  * Allow setting a custom title via ubiquity/custom_title_text.
  * If a package that was marked for installation is upgradable (and thus
    already installed), mark it for upgrade. (LP: #604585)
  * install.py: Update APT usage from deprecated functions and variables.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: bterm-unifont 1.2,
    flash-kernel 2.28ubuntu4, grub-installer 1.49ubuntu12, partman-auto
    91ubuntu3.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Refactor default boot device calculation, bringing it into sync with
    grub-installer. This should ensure that when installing to a removable
    device we always default to installing GRUB to that same device as well,
    while leaving the situation for installations to hard disks unchanged
    (LP: #549756).
 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:49:20 -0500

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Duplicates of this bug

Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.