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update-notifier package

Upgrade of update-notifier-common in hardy overwrites local settings

Bug #181189 reported by Mark Schouten
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-notifier

FYI: I upgraded to Hardy to be able to point people at bugs, if needed. So I am aware of the alpha status of Hardy.

This morning, when upgrading again I received an update for update-notifier-common. This upgrade included a new version of the file '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic'. It asked me if I wanted to override the local changes.

Appearantly, local settings made in the Software Sources program are written into this file. AFAIK, it is not recommended to do local changes in files marked as configfile in the package. Maybe this bug should be reported on the software-properties-gtk, but I'm not sure.

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Mark Schouten (mark-prevented) wrote :

Sorry, I'll paste the diff of the changes here

root@highway:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# diff 10periodic 10periodic.dpkg-old
2c2
< APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
---
> APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
 4c4
< APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: {"touch /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-stamp 2>/dev/null || true";};
---
> APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";

The change I made in the Software Sources program were that it should download packages allready, but not install them.

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-notifier:
assignee: nobody → mvo
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.70.1

---------------
update-notifier (0.70.1) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/15update-stamp:
    - move the update stamp hook into its own configuration
      (LP: #181189)
  * src/hal.c:
    - do not spam .xsession-erors if no cdrom can be found
      (LP: #177437)
  * src/update.c:
    - fix incorrect initialization of GString
    - always show icon when apt is working (LP: #173149)
    - fix in the insensitve code
  * src/update-notifier.h:
    - fix timeouts for outdated repository information
  * po/POTFILES.in:
    - remove unused ui/upgrade-dialog.glade (LP: #157416)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:14:35 +0100

Changed in update-notifier:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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