Problem with custom InstallProgress

[Alexey Palazhchenko]

Hello,

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and python-apt 0.8.3ubuntu7. I wrote a small Python program (attached) to install a package. It doesn't have custom fork(), but program behaves like it does.

aleksi@ubuntu-virtual-server:~$ sudo ./test.py
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
custom fork found
got pid: 9610
start_update
got pid: 0
got fd: 4
finish_update
aleksi@ubuntu-virtual-server:~$ Selecting previously unselected package goo.
(Reading database ... 88751 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking goo (from .../goo_0.155-10_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up goo (0.155-10) ...
                             Processing triggers for menu ...

                                                             aleksi@ubuntu-virtual-server:~$

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

This is a problem with base.InstallProgress (just checked on 0.9.3.3) as well, I haven't looked any closer at it yet, though.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Nobody except you seems to have used this DepCache.commit() The problem is that we do not set the child_pid attribute of the progress handler, thus failing. If we do this, we hit some more bugs, which I fixed in the attached patch.

Fixed in Debian git, commits:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/python-apt.git;a=commit;h=47dfb3fac23721f76fc3084835f2c3c6382777ce
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/python-apt.git;a=commit;h=cd47e3e7e0a87ead87724d0120d408b7993e94c7

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

I'll upload 0.9.3.4 to Debian soon then, and we can sync to Ubuntu afterwards.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 0.9.3.4

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python-apt (0.9.3.4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * python/progress.cc: Fix InstallProgress to set child_pid (LP: #1177720)
  * python/progress.cc: Remove invalid checks for mixedCase methods
  * utils/get_*_mirrors*.py: Ensure failure if no mirrors were read
  * utils/get_*_mirrors*.py: Use sys.stderr.write instead of print
  * Support all compressors for data.tar/control.tar (Closes: #718330)
  * Revert "aptsources/sourceslist.py: ensure that our sources are opened with UTF-8"
    (Closes: #742118)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:48:12 +0100