Archive out of date failures don't suggest a clear solution
Bug #1425682 reported by
Nicholas Skaggs
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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autopkgtest (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
When the archive is out of date, autopkgtest will fail to fetch dependencies and setup the environment properly. This can happen in any container, but is quite common when attempting to test ubuntu touch images.
The proper solution to the issue is to update and make sure your container aligns with what is in the archive. In a pinch and for some use cases, using apt-get update can work. However, I would suggest simply changing the error to something meaningful for those encountering it
ERROR: unexpected error: failed to download and unpack test dependencies
Add a line to this that informs the user they can solve this issue by updating the target.
Changed in autopkgtest (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
Changed in autopkgtest (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
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I made the error messages more verbose in: anonscm. debian. org/cgit/ autopkgtest/ autopkgtest. git/commit/ ?id=45b310250c
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Please let me know if you have further suggestions to clarify or shorten this.