Comment 27 for bug 127263

Should we be checking for corrupt meta release info as well as 0
length files here?

Is it that bad to download the meta release file every time when -d is passed?

On 9/7/07, schnollk <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'd like to report what happend here[1]:
>
> 1. procedure as suggested <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/Tribe5#head-81cc88734ebf046f2eea75748ddc33707ae6cc4d">in ubuntu wiki</a>
> 2. needed the touch cli
> 3. "new release" showed up for one but coulnd't carry out the upgrade right away
> 4. next time I ran update-manager -d option was gone
> 5. variouse touches and update-manager -d's didn't help (sudoed or not)
> 6. finally a came around to rm ~/.update-manager-core/meta-release
> 7. now the option showes up every time update-manager is called without sudo. If I do sudo updat... it wouldn't show up.
>
> Unfortunatelly I didn't capture the meta-release file... Hope this helps
> never the less. Let me know soon if you need more since I'd like to
> update in the next couple of days.
>
> Cheers.
>
> [1]
> $ uname -a
> Linux ubuntu-desktop-i386 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 7.04
> Release: 7.04
> Codename: feisty
>
> $ apt-cache policy update-manager
> update-manager:
> Installed: 1:0.59.23
> Candidate: 1:0.59.23
> Version table:
> *** 1:0.59.23 0
> 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-proposed/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 1:0.59.20 0
> 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
>
> --
> update-manager cannot find meta-release info
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127263
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