Sends mail when MailOnlyOnError=true and all upgradeable packages are blacklisted

[Björn Torkelsson]

I have specified an email-address and MailOnlyOnError=true in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. I have also a couple of packages blacklisted. However when unattended-upgrades are run (and the only packages eligible for upgrades are blacklisted) I still get an email (see below). I do not consider this situation as an error that warrants an email. Apticron will be used to notify that there are packages available for upgrades and that are not handled by unattended-upgrades.

I haven't yet been in the situation where there are both upgradeable packages and blacklisted packages, so I'm not sure if I will receive an email in that case.

Email:

Unattended upgrade returned: None

Packages that are upgraded:

Packages with upgradable origin but kept back:
postgresql-client postgresql-client-common

Unattended-upgrades log: Initial blacklisted packages: dcache sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-bin openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre-lib postgresql-common postgresql postgresql-8.3 postgresql-8.4 postgresql-9.0 postgresql-9.1 postgresql-client postgresql-client-8.3 postgresql-client-8.4 postgresql-client-9.0 postgresql-client-9.1 postgresql-contrib postgresql-contrib-8.3 postgresql-contrib-8.4 postgresql-contrib-9.0 postgresql-contrib-9.1 libpq5

Starting unattended upgrades script
Allowed origins are: ['o=Ubuntu,a=precise-security', 'o=Ubuntu,a=precise-updates', 'o=HPC2N,a=']
Packages that are auto removed: ''
Packages that are upgraded:

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.76
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 25 12:30:15 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-02 (206 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.apt.apt.conf.d.50unattended.upgrades: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.apt.apt.conf.d.50unattended.upgrades: 2012-03-12T20:05:57.072716

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sean (2i-ubuntu-c1)]

Is this ever going to be fixed? This issue is still present in 0.82.1ubuntu2.3, which was just installed, overriding the patch that I had previously applied... Extremely annoying...

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

Looking at the code this seems to be fixed from 0.89.
https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/commit/25ff94915a9fc99058839d16761cf029896cbe05