Alternative to Dpkg::Post-Invoke that runs even if dpkg did not have to be invoked

Bug #1815761 reported by Julian Andres Klode
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Bug Description

[Impact]
Dpkg::Post-Invoke is run only when dpkg had to be run. We'd like to be able to show some extra output even if no changes had been made. Imagine "the user disabled the security repo, and does not get any updates shown scenario" - we'd like to be able to tell them that there are security updates available after all.

[Test case]
1. Specify an APT::Install::Post-Invoke-Success hook

2. Make sure it runs even if there are no changes, using apt upgrade -tnow

[Regression potential]
No-change upgrades/install can now fail if this new hooks fail.

CVE References

affects: ubuntu → apt (Ubuntu)
Changed in apt (Ubuntu Disco):
status: New → In Progress
tags: added: id-5baa476c7e47fe1ecba988ab
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.8.0~rc3ubuntu1

---------------
apt (1.8.0~rc3ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

  * update: Provide APT::Update-Post-Invoke-Stats script hook point
    (LP: #1815760)
  * Introduce APT::Install::Pre-Invoke / Post-Invoke-Success (LP: #1815761)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:22:34 +0100

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Disco):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
description: updated
Changed in apt (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in apt (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in apt (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in apt (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.7.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic
Changed in apt (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed-bionic
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.6.9 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.2.30 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed-xenial
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.0.1ubuntu2.21 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-trusty. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed-trusty
Revision history for this message
Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

Verified by running echo TEST1815761 as the hook, across all releases with their SRU versions (as shown in the log below).

$ lxc exec apt-cosmic -- apt upgrade apt -tnow -o APT::Install::Post-Invoke-Success::="/bin/echo TEST1815761"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
apt is already the newest version (1.7.3).
apt set to manually installed.
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
TEST1815761

$ lxc exec apt-bionic -- apt upgrade apt -tnow -o APT::Install::Post-Invoke-Success::="/bin/echo TEST1815761"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
apt is already the newest version (1.6.9).
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
TEST1815761

$ lxc exec apt-xenial -- apt upgrade apt -tnow -o APT::Install::Post-Invoke-Success::="/bin/echo TEST1815761"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
apt is already the newest version (1.2.30).
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
TEST1815761

$ lxc exec apt-trusty -- apt upgrade apt -tnow -o APT::Install::Post-Invoke-Success::="/bin/echo TEST1815761"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
apt is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libfreetype6 os-prober
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
TEST1815761

$ lxc exec apt-trusty -- apt-cache policy apt #apt upgrade apt -tnow -o APT::Install::Post-Invoke-Success::="/bin/echo TEST1815761"
apt:
  Installed: 1.0.1ubuntu2.21
  Candidate: 1.0.1ubuntu2.21
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.1ubuntu2.21 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

tags: added: verification-done verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic verification-done-trusty verification-done-xenial
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-cosmic verification-needed-trusty verification-needed-xenial
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.7.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic
removed: verification-done verification-done-cosmic
tags: added: verification-needed-bionic
removed: verification-done-bionic
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.6.10 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

tags: added: verification-needed-xenial
removed: verification-done-xenial
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.2.31 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.0.1ubuntu2.22 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-trusty. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

tags: added: verification-needed-trusty
removed: verification-done-trusty
Revision history for this message
Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

All reverified against the new versions (versions in log below).

$ lxc exec apt-cosmic -- apt upgrade apt libapt-pkg5.0 -tnow -o APT::Install::Post-Invoke-Success::="/bin/echo TEST1815761"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
apt is already the newest version (1.7.4).
libapt-pkg5.0 is already the newest version (1.7.4).
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
TEST1815761

$ lxc exec apt-bionic -- apt upgrade apt libapt-pkg5.0 -tnow -o APT::Install::Post-Invoke-Success::="/bin/echo TEST1815761"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
apt is already the newest version (1.6.10).
libapt-pkg5.0 is already the newest version (1.6.10).
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
TEST1815761

$ lxc exec apt-xenial -- apt upgrade apt libapt-pkg5.0 -tnow -o APT::Install::Post-Invoke-Success::="/bin/echo TEST1815761"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
apt is already the newest version (1.2.31).
libapt-pkg5.0 is already the newest version (1.2.31).
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
TEST1815761

$ lxc exec apt-trusty -- apt upgrade apt libapt-pkg4.12 -tnow -o APT::Install::Post-Invoke-Success::="/bin/echo TEST1815761"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
apt is already the newest version.
libapt-pkg4.12 is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libfreetype6 os-prober
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
TEST1815761

$ lxc exec apt-trusty -- apt-cache policy apt
apt:
  Installed: 1.0.1ubuntu2.22
  Candidate: 1.0.1ubuntu2.22
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.1ubuntu2.22 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.1ubuntu2.20 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
     1.0.1ubuntu2.19 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
     1.0.1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

tags: added: verification-done verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic verification-done-trusty verification-done-xenial
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-cosmic verification-needed-trusty verification-needed-xenial
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for apt has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.7.4

---------------
apt (1.7.4) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Fix name of APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Stats (was ...Update-Post...)
  * CMake: Install auth.conf.d directory (LP: #1818996)
  * Merge translations from 1.8.0

apt (1.7.3) cosmic; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * private-json-hooks.cc: deal with EPIPE (LP: #1814543)

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Introduce experimental 'never' pinning for sources (LP: #1814727)
  * Add a Packages-Require-Authorization Release file field (LP: #1814727)
  * doc: Set ubuntu-codename to cosmic (LP: #1812696)
  * update: Provide APT::Update-Post-Invoke-Stats script hook point
    (LP: #1815760)
  * Introduce APT::Install::Pre-Invoke / Post-Invoke-Success (LP: #1815761)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:31:46 +0100

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.6.10

---------------
apt (1.6.10) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Fix name of APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Stats (was ...Update-Post...)
  * CMake: Install auth.conf.d directory (LP: #1818996)
  * Merge translations from 1.7.4

apt (1.6.9) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * private-json-hooks.cc: deal with EPIPE (LP: #1814543)

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Introduce experimental 'never' pinning for sources (LP: #1814727)
  * Add a Packages-Require-Authorization Release file field (LP: #1814727)
  * doc: Set ubuntu-codename to bionic (LP: #1812696)
  * update: Provide APT::Update-Post-Invoke-Stats script hook point
    (LP: #1815760)
  * Introduce APT::Install::Pre-Invoke / Post-Invoke-Success (LP: #1815761)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:34:07 +0100

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.2.31

---------------
apt (1.2.31) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Fix name of APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Stats (was ...Update-Post...)
  * apt.dirs: Install auth.conf.d directory (LP: #1818996)
  * Merge translations from 1.6.10 (via 1.4.y branch)

apt (1.2.30) xenial; urgency=medium

  * merge security upload for content injection in http method (CVE-2019-3462);
    with fixed autopkgtest (LP: #1815750)
  * Introduce experimental 'never' pinning for sources (LP: #1814727)
  * Add support for /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/*.conf (netrcparts) (LP: #1811120)
  * Add a Packages-Require-Authorization Release file field (LP: #1814727)
  * NeverAutoRemove kernel meta packages (LP: #1787460)
  * doc: Set ubuntu-codename to xenial (LP: #1812696)
  * update: Provide APT::Update-Post-Invoke-Stats script hook point
    (LP: #1815760)
  * Introduce APT::Install::Pre-Invoke / Post-Invoke-Success (LP: #1815761)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:59:01 +0100

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.0.1ubuntu2.22

---------------
apt (1.0.1ubuntu2.22) trusty; urgency=medium

  * apt.dirs: Install auth.conf.d directory (LP: #1818996)
  * Merge translations from 1.2.31

apt (1.0.1ubuntu2.21) trusty; urgency=medium

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * travis CI: Use docker container to get useful results
  * fix and non-silent fail dpkg-overwrite error test (LP: #1817088)
  * Introduce experimental 'never' pinning for sources (LP: #1814727)
  * Add support for /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/*.conf (netrcparts) (LP: #1811120)
  * Add a Packages-Require-Authorization Release file field (LP: #1814727)
  * NeverAutoRemove kernel meta packages (LP: #1787460)
  * Introduce APT::Install::Pre-Invoke / Post-Invoke-Success (LP: #1815761)

  [ David Kalnischkies ]
  * ftparchive/writer.cc: use a std::vector instead of hardcoded array
    (LP: #1817048)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:15:54 +0100

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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