apt-clone makes changes to non-cloned environment

[Tim Spriggs]

While attempting an upgrade from elatte-unstable (fully updated) to hardy-unstable apt/dpkg are upgraded in the current environment and not the cloned env. apt/dpkg break from bad dependencies and the live root env is badly broken. apt-clone should not touch apt/dpkg in the live installation, only the clone environment.

[Erast (erast)]

By default, apt-clone will only try to switch to "safe" upgrade mode if some of the core/important packages detected. In all other cases it will not be different from apt-get dist-upgrade + some manual tweaking. To force apt-clone always use ZFS clone for "safe" operation use provided "-s" flag.

[Tim Spriggs (tim-tajinc)]

This is a core package upgrade... I ran:

# apt-clone dist-upgrade

and it internally ran "apt-get install apt dpkg" outside of the clone
env which broke the running root env.

Erast wrote:
> By default, apt-clone will only try to switch to "safe" upgrade mode if
> some of the core/important packages detected. In all other cases it will
> not be different from apt-get dist-upgrade + some manual tweaking. To
> force apt-clone always use ZFS clone for "safe" operation use provided
> "-s" flag.
>
>

[Erast (erast)]

Indeed... apt/dpkg was an exception, but point taken. Confirmed.

[Erast (erast)]

uploaded new apt with fixed apt-clone

[Tim Spriggs (tim-tajinc)]

This still seems to affect elatte-* I just brought up a VM in order to test the NCP1 -> NCP2 installation process and apt-clone attempted to upgrade dpkg and friends before a clone was made. Since the NCP2 dpkg had the libintl.so.8 issue the VM was hosed.

root@elatte2hardy:~# apt-clone -v dist-upgrade
...
apt-get -V -f -y install dpkg apt
...
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.13.22nexenta10 (using .../dpkg_1.14.16.6nexenta6-build1_solaris-i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
ld.so.1: dpkg: fatal: libintl.so.8: open failed: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
Could not download all needed packages. Check failed.
root@elatte2hardy:~# df -h .
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
syspool/rootfs-nmu-000
                       6.8G 872M 6.0G 13% /
root@elatte2hardy:~# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
syspool 894M 5.96G 23K legacy
syspool/rootfs-nmu-000 894M 5.96G 872M legacy
syspool/rootfs-nmu-000@initial 21.5M - 631M -

You mentioned that this was updated but it still seems to affect elatte.

[Erast (erast)]

The proper fix would be to fix apt package and upload it to elatte-* repos and add proper preinst check.