[Bug 1175637] Re: Kernel updates are being marked as manually installed

[Brian Murray]

08:33 < slangasek> bdmurray: so I think it's probably a 
                   straightforward matter of 
                   unattended-upgrades not calling the 
                   right api to mark packages as auto 
                   when pulling them in as new deps
08:33 < slangasek> not that I know what that api 
                   actually is
08:35 < bdmurray> slangasek: okay
08:35 < cjwatson> mark_install(from_user=False) I think? 
                  But check ...
08:36 < slangasek> ah, there's a single call to 
                   mark_install() in u-a, so that would 
                   be nice and convenient if so
08:36 < slangasek> bdmurray: is that enough to be going 
                   on with?

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Title:
  Kernel updates are being marked as manually installed

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “unattended-upgrades” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Updates to the linux-image-* packages in Precise are being marked as
  "manually" installed, regardless of the auto/manual flag on the
  existing kernel packages. This happens when updating packages with
  apt, aptitude, or unattended-upgrades. I'm running an up-to-date
  12.04.2 LTS installed (amd64).

  I can see that my existing kernels were marked as automatically
  installed:

  % apt-mark showauto | grep linux-image
  linux-image-3.2.0-40-generic
  linux-image-generic

  And, after the update was performed by unattended-upgrades last night,
  the new kernel is marked manual:

  % apt-mark showmanual | grep linux-image
  linux-image-3.2.0-41-generic

  This is a problem, because it renders the fix in this bug,
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/923876 (Limit and
  clean-up kernel images and headers automatically in LTS) ineffective,
  since apt-get autoremove will not remove packages which are marked as
  manually installed.

  I'm running the following package versions:

  apt: 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.10
  aptitude: 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.10
  unattended-upgrades: 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.10
  aptdaemon: 0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu9

  This bug looks similar to
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+bug/1078544, however, I'm
  running a version of aptdaemon that supposedly has this fix applied.

  Please let me know if I can provide any other useful information.

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