Ubuntu
livecd-rootfs package

manifest claims two packages are both installed that conflict

Bug #2036278 reported by Steve Langasek
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Bug Description

Investigating LP: #2036199, found that https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-unity/daily-live/20230914/mantic-desktop-amd64.manifest lists grub-pc + grub-efi-amd64. This wasn't surprising as Julian has mentioned work happening in Debian to make these packages co-installable. But that work hasn't landed yet, the packages still conflict.

Yet both are listed in the manifest for the squashfs, which shouldn't be possible.

$ sudo mount /tmp/ubuntu-unity-mantic-desktop-amd64.iso /mnt/
$ sudo mount /mnt/casper/filesystem.squashfs /mnt/
$ sudo chroot /mnt dpkg -l | grep grub-pc
rc grub-pc 2.12~rc1-4ubuntu3 amd64 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
ii grub-pc-bin 2.12~rc1-4ubuntu3 amd64 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS modules)
$

The fact that grub-pc was removed is a bug. The fact that a package is in removed but not purged state in the image is ALSO a bug. We should probably just assert whenever this is the case and fail the build.

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
tags: added: rls-mm-incoming
Revision history for this message
Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

The bit that was confusing to me about this is that dpkg-query --show includes removed but not purged files.

Julian Andres Klode (juliank)
tags: added: foundations-todo
removed: rls-mm-incoming
no longer affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu Mantic)
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