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Re: [Debathena] #1026: athena-auto-update needs a full rewrite
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Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:26:18 -0000
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#1026: athena-auto-update needs a full rewrite
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Reporter: jdreed | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: Precise Alpha
Component: -- | Resolution:
Keywords: | Upstream bug:
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Description changed by jdreed:
Old description:
> Rewrite it with a flamethrower. Ideally using unattended-upgrades or
> something more robust than a sketchy shell script.
New description:
Given #1020, #1145, and #840, we need to re-write auto-update, because
it's now full of hacks. The consensus is that we should switch to apt-
get, which has better multi-arch support. But, we need to preserve the
check for not removing metapackages. Perhaps this can be accomplished
with apt-get -s?
OTOH, if we don't set autoremove (and it's not set by default), apt-get
would only remove the actual metapackages, and not their dependencies,
which is less catastrophic. So you'd have a functional machine, but
machtype -L and possibly the greeter would yell at you.
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Ticket URL: <https://athena10.mit.edu/trac/ticket/1026#comment:1>
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