Ubuntu
update-manager package

Feature request: List executed commands in "Details"

Bug #2020140 reported by David Hedlund
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Bug Description

update-manager is listing if packages are downloaded, installed, and removed in the "Details" section, but the responsible commands (apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade, apt autoremove, apt clean, apt full-upgrade, etc) for these actions are not listed in the section.

Please add them, so people can build scripts, and reproduce bugs, based on update-manager. This would be particular useful for Ubuntu Server, as it does not use a desktop environment by default as required by update-manager (the "graphical management of software packages updates").

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: update-manager 1:23.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-20.20-generic 6.2.6
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Aptdaemon:

Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri May 19 00:47:10 2023
GsettingsChanges:
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-count' b'1'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'int64 1682649175'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-04-23 (25 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Release amd64 (20230418)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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David Hedlund (g-public) wrote :
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David Hedlund (g-public) wrote :

Maintainers: Please change the "Importance" to "Wishlist"

Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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David Hedlund (g-public) wrote :

Thank you Brian.

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote :

I have trouble reading my way around the code, but it's possible that what you want may not actually exist; it's possible this program is issuing API calls that do the underlying work without executing higher-level commands like 'apt-get install' etc.

You can check with the execsnoop-bpfcc program from the bpfcc-tools package, but be forewarned it'll spit a *lot* of data, as the maintainer scripts are simple shell scripts that execute a lot of programs, repetitively.

Thanks

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David Hedlund (g-public) wrote (last edit ):

Thank you very much for suggesting execsnoop-bpfcc, I'll try it.

I started this mailing-list thread in ubuntu-devel-discuss:

    update-manager: terminal-based version - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2023-May/019539.html

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