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Bug 962163

Summary:	apt-transport-spacewalk always tries to install packages that are already installed.
Product:	[Community] Spacewalk	Reporter:	Andrew Colin Kissa <andrew>
Component:	Clients	Assignee:	Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Description Andrew Colin Kissa 2013-05-12 07:27:35 UTC

Description of problem:

When using apt-transport-spacewalk on both debian and ubuntu, apt-transport-spacewalk always tries to install packages that are already installed.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):1.0.8


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install apt-transport-spacewalk on debian or ubuntu
2. register to a spacewalk server
3. install a package from the spacewalk server
4. run apt-get upgrade
  
Actual results:
root@ms:~# apt-get -V upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
   apt-transport-spacewalk (1.0.8-2 => 1.0.8-2)
   python-rhn (2.5.55-2 => 2.5.55-2)
   rhn-client-tools (1.9.10-2 => 1.9.10-2)
   rhnsd (4.9.15-2 => 4.9.15-2)
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/664 kB of archives.
After this operation, 676 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n


Expected results:

apt-get should not try to install a package that is already installed.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Milan Zázrivec 2014-01-24 17:01:11 UTC

I did the same procedure (Spacewalk 2.1 nightly) as in the opening comment
with the following results:

$ apt-get -V upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I'm going to close this report with worksforme. Please reopen with
an explaining comment if you disagree or if this is still happening
for you.

Comment 2 Eric Herget 2017-09-28 18:07:54 UTC

This BZ closed some time during 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7.  Adding to 2.7 tracking bug.