Unattended-upgrades doesn't upgrade packages in repositories local to the filesystem.

[Michael R. Head]

I've got a local mirror of dapper's main and restricted repositories for use by a number of machines here, using debmirror. I was able to use file:/// deb lines in apt's source.list file and it worked with all the other tools for package management, but I noticed that unattented-upgrades failed:

2006-08-17 07:35:19,129 INFO Initial blacklisted packages:
2006-08-17 07:35:19,129 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script
2006-08-17 07:35:19,129 INFO Allowed origins are: ["['Ubuntu', 'dapper-security']"]
2006-08-17 07:35:20,394 INFO Packages that are upgraded: libkrb53 libmagick9
2006-08-17 07:35:20,395 INFO Writing dpkg log to '/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2006-08-17_07:35:20.394948.log'
2006-08-17 07:35:20,611 ERROR Installing the upgrades failed!
2006-08-17 07:35:20,611 ERROR error message: 'E:Internal Error, Pathname to install is not absolute 'libkrb53_1.4.3-5ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb''
2006-08-17 07:35:20,611 INFO All upgrades installed

Here's my sources.list lines for main and security:
deb file:///ubuntu-mirror/ dapper main restricted
deb-src file:///ubuntu-mirror/ dapper main restricted
deb file:///ubuntu-mirror/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src file:///ubuntu-mirror/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb file:///ubuntu-mirror/ dapper-security main restricted
deb-src file:///ubuntu-mirror/ dapper-security main restricted

As a workaround, I am now accessing the files via http to localhost.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I understand that the normal apt-get install works on this configuration just fine?

[Michael R. Head (burner)]

Correct. I thought the security patches would be applied automatically, but when I found they weren't, I did the regular apt-get upgrade, which worked.

[Michael R. Head (burner)]

Confirming because I provided the "needed info"

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This is fixed for hardy now

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unattended-upgrades - 0.30ubuntu1

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unattended-upgrades (0.30ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  [ John Edwards ]
  * fix missing spaces in the log file (LP: #136452)
  * add better comments and examples to data/50unattended-upgrades

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * README improved based on Johns suggestions (thanks!)
  * fix grammer and dated reference to dapper (LP: #140038),
    thanks to Christer Edwards for the suggestions
  * add "mailx" to suggests (LP: #137994)
  * show propper log output if mail is not available (LP: #137994)
  * show packages that are held back from the upgrade because of
    conffile prompt in the log as a warning (LP: #133551)
  * create logdir if it does not exist (LP: #87338)
  * fix error when installing from file:// uris (LP: #56832)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:57:17 +0100