upgrade/reinstall option overwrites apt-setup generated sources.list (no extras.ubuntu.com)

[Evan]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Installing with either the upgrade or reinstall option results in the attached duplicate sources.list entries.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

What does the original sources.list file looks like? Is this maybe a issue with apt-clone?

[Evan (ev)]

apt-clone does not attempt to merge the sources.list from the saved state into the new sources.list, if one exists (as it does in the installer case). Instead, it copies the sources.list from the saved state over the new sources.list.

[Evan (ev)]

Here's a work in progress patch. It does not yet work around the problem of referring to cdrom sources that do not exist, nor does it catch the FetchFailedException thrown by update() when not all sources can be updated.

[Evan (ev)]

Further progress. All that's left is resolving duplicates, then I'll push it to a branch and propose a merge against trunk.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks a bunch for this patch, looks great!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apt-clone - 0.1.4

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apt-clone (0.1.4) natty; urgency=low

  * apt_clone.py:
    - add apt::architecture to the state file
  * apt_clone.py:
    - if run in restore-new-distro mode and we are on the new distro
      already (like e.g. ubiquity) then protect the installed packages on
      restore to ensure that conflicts get resolved in favor of the new
      defaults (important for e.g. clean xubuntu clone)
  * merged lp:~ev/apt-clone/739489, many thanks Evan Dandrea
    (LP: #739489)
  * debian/control:
    - depend on lsb-release for the restore-new-distro feature
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:03:14 +0200

[Janusz (yorashtan2)]

Tried to install 11.04 beta and the bug is still there.

[Evan (ev)]

ajarmoniuk,

Please file a new bug by running `sudo ubuntu-bug ubiquity`. Please also attach the /etc/apt/sources.list from the final system.

Thanks!