report packages from security pocket

Bug #1848828 reported by Eric Desrochers
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
landscape-client (Ubuntu)
In Progress
Medium
Simon Poirier
Xenial
In Progress
Medium
Simon Poirier
Bionic
In Progress
Medium
Simon Poirier
Disco
Won't Fix
Medium
Simon Poirier
Eoan
Won't Fix
Medium
Simon Poirier
Focal
In Progress
Medium
Simon Poirier

Bug Description

[Impact]

I report this bug to add the necessary bit into lds-client for all affected/supported releases.

[Test Case]

* One must use Landscape server on-prem (version >=19.01) or hosted which already contain the necessary server side change.
* Install landscape-client.
* Successfully register a client against Landscape server.
* Security updates will only rely on USN notices and could possibly ignore other packages found in -security pocket even if they are there simply by the fact that there was no USN notice specific for them.

(e.g. systemd has an USN, systemd get updated but its derived systemd binary packages aren't updated)

[Regression Potential]

* The patch flags potential security updates by matching the pocket name. The server then does additional package selection from that info. If the pocket matching were to break, security updates would continue as it was previously.
* False positive matching could be possible, assuming one builds a mirror which mimics security pockets and contains normal updates. In that case, landscape could mistakenly update as if they were security updates.
* Landscape may apply security updates without USN data, if the update comes from a security pocket. Since this matches the behaviour of unattended-upgrades and MOTD info, this may be closer to what users expect, even though this is a change of behaviour.

[Other Info]

* Upstream details:
https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/landscape-client/commit/93a3b47965da199785e9b3d226cb61f721e54196
https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/landscape-client/pull/57
https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/landscape-client/pull/70

Tags: sts

Related branches

Eric Desrochers (slashd)
tags: added: sts
description: updated
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Focal):
assignee: nobody → Simon Poirier (simpoir)
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
Eric Desrochers (slashd)
description: updated
description: updated
Eric Desrochers (slashd)
description: updated
Simon Poirier (simpoir)
description: updated
Eric Desrochers (slashd)
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Eoan):
assignee: nobody → Simon Poirier (simpoir)
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Disco):
assignee: nobody → Simon Poirier (simpoir)
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Bionic):
assignee: nobody → Simon Poirier (simpoir)
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Xenial):
assignee: nobody → Simon Poirier (simpoir)
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Eoan):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Disco):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Xenial):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Eoan):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Disco):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: sts-sponsor-slashd
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Bionic):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → In Progress
Simon Poirier (simpoir)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Eric Desrochers (slashd) wrote :

Simon and I are working on delivering a more recent lds-client codebase (ofc including the code to fix this particular bug) and modernising the actual src package (e.g. compat v7 to v12) for focal.

Once everything is found in focal-release, we will SRU PR#57 and PR#70 into stable releases.

- Eric

Eric Desrochers (slashd)
tags: removed: sts-sponsor-slashd
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Disco):
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

The Eoan Ermine has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release

Changed in landscape-client (Ubuntu Eoan):
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
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