Bug#593430: apt should backup /var/lib/apt/extended_states
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.23.1
Severity: important
Now that apt stores information about automatic installation status of
packages in its own file in /var/lib/apt/extended_states, backups should
be taken of this file the same as is done for /var/lib/dpkg/status and
/var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.
Strangely, /etc/cron.daily/apt does backups of /var/cache/apt and *not*
of /var/lib/apt, even though all information in /var/cache is supposed to
be recoverable if deleted!
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "armel";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-iop32x
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1+b4 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.96.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
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