[Bug 376948] Re: update-manager wrongly requires the presence of /home

[Walter Garcia-Fontes]

Sorry that the issue got unattended at the time of report. Please feel
free to reopen by marking the status as "new" if you see this in current
versions of update-manager.

** Changed in: update-manager-core (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Package changed: update-manager-core (Ubuntu) => update-manager
(Ubuntu)

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Title:
  update-manager wrongly requires the presence of /home

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager-core

  Release:        9.04
  apt-cache policy update-manager-core
  update-manager-core:
    Installed: 1:0.111.9
    Candidate: 1:0.111.9
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.111.9 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:0.111.7 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

  When I start update-manager, and press the Install updates button, an error message is shown in in the shell complaining about not finding /home.
  The reason is that I have no /home directory, that is mounted only via autofs, but not in this network where my computer was connected.

  The solution was to patch /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-
  packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py (which is a symlink to
  ../../../../share/pyshared/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py) like this:

  #        for d in ["/","/usr","/var","/boot", archivedir, aufs_rw_dir, "/home"]:
          for d in ["/","/usr","/var","/boot", archivedir, aufs_rw_dir]:

  After that, update worked fine.

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