unable to update an bug with an existing .crash file

[James Hunt]

I may be misunderstanding the man pages, but I was assuming that if I ran the following...

    $ sudo apport-cli --save /tmp/linux.crash linux

... then copied linux.crash to a local system, I would be able to append the meta-data in linux.crash to an *existing* bug report like this:

    $ apport-cli --update-report $bug --crash-file linux.report

However, that doesn't work:

    Usage: apport-cli [options] [symptom|pid|package|program path|.apport/.crash file]

    apport-cli: error: -u/--update-bug option cannot be used together with options for a new report

This looks like a bug since I've specified '--update-report', hence this is not a new report.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

That's right, this cannot currently be used like that. apport-collect is meant to be run on the affected system.

It would be nice to make it work on a system which isn't connected to the internet, with --save indeed.

[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

This would be a very useful feature for cases where bugs are mirrored from a bug tracking tool like bugzilla to launchpad, usually servers are behind firewalls, so .apport could be collected offline and later (the mirrored lp bug could be) updated with .apport information.