Bug#838545: apt not showing any package update if just one repo is not valid
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:26:03PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Version: 1.3~pre3
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 08:41:10AM +0200, Björn JACKE wrote:
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 1.0.9.8.3
> >
> > when there are invalid or expired apt repositories configured, ALL other apt
> > repos will not be updated.
> >
> > In my case:
> >
> > CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get -o quiet=1 update -o quiet=2
> > E: Release file for http://ftp.uni-koeln.de/debian/dists/jessie-backports/InRelease is expired (invalid since 8d 18h 50min 50s). Updates for this repository will not be applied
> >
> > That message implies, that updates for this repository will not be applied (but
> > others will!)
> >
> > But no packages are installed. Disabling the expired repository makes "apt-get
> > dist-upgrade" install all the outstanding packages that have been release in
> > the last 8 days (since the mentioned repo expired).
> >
> > Enabling the repo again hides all the outstanding updates right away.
>
> This bug was fixed in 1.3~pre3 with the following commit (strangely enough):
>
> e8e5d464623f1c2e1ef96b14e622728bbf4b89af is the first fixed commit
> commit e8e5d464623f1c2e1ef96b14e622728bbf4b89af
> Author: David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>
> Date: Wed Jul 20 09:03:09 2016 +0200
>
> allow arch=all to override No-Support-for-Architecture-all
>
> If a user explicitly requests the download of arch:all apt shouldn't get
> in the way and perform its detection dance if arch:all packages are
> (also) in arch:any files or not.
>
> This e.g. allows setting arch=all on a source with such a field (or one
> which doesn't support all at all, but has the arch:all files like Debian
> itself ATM) to get only the arch:all packages from there instead of
> behaving like a no-op.
>
> Reported-By: Helmut Grohne on IRC
Ignore that, it was fixed earlier. My test case was just broken before.
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