unattended-upgrades: Not enough information about blacklisted packages

[Enrique]

 I am using unattended-upgrades to manage my software upgrades. I have my Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist option empty, but however all the packages are being rejected, as shown in the log of unattended-upgrades:

2011-03-24 09:16:14,528 INFO Initial blacklisted packages:
2011-03-24 09:16:14,528 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script
2011-03-24 09:16:14,528 INFO Allowed origins are: ["['Ubuntu', 'lucid-security']", "['Ubuntu', 'lucid-updates']"]
2011-03-24 09:16:23,620 INFO package 'linux-tools' not upgraded
2011-03-24 09:16:24,018 INFO package 'linux-libc-dev' not upgraded
2011-03-24 09:16:24,353 INFO package 'linux-headers-generic' not upgraded
2011-03-24 09:16:24,855 INFO package 'flashplugin-nonfree' not upgraded
2011-03-24 09:16:25,464 INFO package 'linux-tools-common' not upgraded
2011-03-24 09:16:26,146 INFO package 'flashplugin-installer' not upgraded
2011-03-24 09:16:26,849 INFO package 'linux-generic' not upgraded
2011-03-24 09:16:27,609 INFO package 'linux-image-generic' not upgraded
2011-03-24 09:16:27,783 INFO Packages that are upgraded:
2011-03-24 09:16:27,783 INFO Writing dpkg log to '/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2011-03-24_09:16:27.783762.log'

 Using option -d to debug it, I see that the packages are not trusted:
2011-03-24 13:02:02,164 DEBUG <apt_pkg.AcquireItem object: Status: 2 Complete: 1 Local: 1 IsTrusted: 0 FileSize: 31537644 DestFile:'/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.32-30-gene
ric_2.6.32-30.59_i386.deb' DescURI: 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-2.6.32-30-generic_2.6.32-30.59_i386.deb' ID:0 ErrorText: ''>

 So I think that being untrusted they are simply blacklisted. Line 345 of unattended-upgrades seems to be the culprit:
            if item.IsTrusted == False:
                blacklisted_pkgs.append(pkgname_from_deb(item.DestFile))

 Just adding something like:
                logging.warning(_("Package '%s' is not trusted ") % pkgname_from_deb(item.DestFile))

 would solve the issue.

 I am using Linux Mint 9.

 The other question is why they are not trusted, that I have to investigate..

 Regards

[Enrique (enrique-garcia)]

 Here is a possible patch against unattended-upgrades 0.55ubuntu5:

diff unattended-upgrades /usr/bin/
346d345
< logging.warning(_("Package '%s' is not trusted and has been blacklisted") % pkgname_from_deb(item.DestFile))

 Regards

[Enrique (enrique-garcia)]

 Probably the language-pack-*-base packages should have to be upgraded as well, to provide the translated string.

[Enrique (enrique-garcia)]

 Hi!
 I realized the bug has been marked "Invalid". In which sense is it invalid?
 Regards,
 Enrique

[Mike McGranahan (tfav)]

I'm on Ubuntu 12.04.1. I too wonder why it's Invalid. Had to dive into the source code to figure out why some packages were being blacklisted. All the other blacklisting code paths log a message of some kind.