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update-manager package

Save system state before starting an update or upgrade operation

Bug #551646 reported by Matt Zimmerman
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Our upgrade test instructions ask users to save certain system state (for example, dpkg -l) before running an upgrade, as this can be useful in diagnosing upgrade problems. Rather than relying on the user to do this, it would be great if update-manager could save this information automatically before starting an operation. Then, apport hooks and the like could simply look for the saved information and attach it to bug reports.

Matt Zimmerman (mdz)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for the suggestion, this is implemented now in bzr and will be part of the next upload. It saves a copy of /var/lib/dpkg/status plus sources.list and apt preferences prior to the upgrade to be able to fully re-create failed upgrades.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.134

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update-manager (1:0.134) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Barry Warsaw ]
  * Bump up the amount of /boot space calculated per kernel. The current
    value appears to undercount by about 260K/kernel. (LP: #132311)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * refresh translations from launchpad
  * update "10.04" strings to "10.04 LTS" and unfuzzy translations
  * when requesting the release announcement, append ?lang=current_lang
    to the request URI
  * update quirks for updates from hardy
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg, DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg.hardy:
    - add extra protection against video driver removal (LP: #556629)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py:
    - improve logging and save system state before performing the
      upgrade. Suggested by Matt Zimmerman (LP: #551646)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:18:25 +0200

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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