Applying a package profile leaves unnecessary file in sources.list.d

[Mike Fry]

This is happening with Bionic, Focal & Jammy.

After applying a package profile, this happens.

sudo apt update
Get:1 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ InRelease
Ign:1 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ InRelease
Get:2 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Release
Ign:2 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Release
Get:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Get:3 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Packages [847 B]
Get:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./ Translation-en

sudo ls -altr /etc/apt/sources.list.d
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 26 09:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 8 09:54 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 121 May 13 13:26 microsoft-ubuntu-prod.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71 May 13 13:26 _landscape-internal-facade.list

[Mike Fry (mikefrygm)]

The version of landscape-client/jammy,now 19.12-0ubuntu13 amd64 [installed]

[Mitch Burton (mitchburton)]

Hello, thanks for the bug report!

Would you mind providing some more information?

  * what steps did you follow to produce the bug? Just applied a package profile to a client?
  * what were the package constraints for your package profile?
  * does this behaviour persist in 23.02-0ubuntu1~22.04.2, the version of landscape-client available from jammy-updates?
  * what are the contents of the "unnecessary files", if you can share them?

[Mike Fry (mikefrygm)]

Hi Mitch.
Yes, to produce the bug several time, all I did was apply a package profile to several computers.
I have a profile that consists of several packages to be installed. The contraint is any version since I want the latest version.
The behavior consists in the landscape-client/jammy,now 19.12-0ubuntu13 amd64. I don't see the version you referenced. Here is my source.list for jammy updates.
deb http://ubunturepo.epg.nam.gm.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main universe multiverse restricted

Here is the unnecessary files.
:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# cat _landscape-internal-facade.list
deb [ trusted=yes ] file:///var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./

[Mike Fry (mikefrygm)]

Here is a listing of our repo for landscape-client
:/var/www/ubuntu/pool/main/l/landscape-client# ll
total 628
drwxr-xr-x 2 dlandscape_admin landscape 306 Mar 7 11:04 ./
drwxr-xr-x 607 dlandscape_admin landscape 24576 Mar 19 09:23 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dlandscape_admin landscape 110252 Apr 4 2022 landscape-client_19.12-0ubuntu13_amd64.deb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dlandscape_admin landscape 108492 Mar 22 2022 landscape-client_19.12-0ubuntu4.3_amd64.deb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dlandscape_admin landscape 108448 Apr 15 2020 landscape-client_19.12-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dlandscape_admin landscape 86386 Apr 4 2022 landscape-common_19.12-0ubuntu13_amd64.deb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dlandscape_admin landscape 86440 Mar 22 2022 landscape-common_19.12-0ubuntu4.3_amd64.deb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dlandscape_admin landscape 86704 Apr 15 2020 landscape-common_19.12-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb*

[Mitch Burton (mitchburton)]

Hi Mike,

The _landscape-internal-facade.list file is a file created to work around LP: #1736576, which implies that package profiles on bionic and up will break on apt-secure verification without this file.

As this seems to be intended behaviour, I'm going to close this bug - feel free to reopen it if you disagree.