[Bug 727685] Re: /etc/cron.daily/apt randomly delays other jobs

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This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.2.10

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apt (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Zhou Mo ]
  * zh_CN.po: update simplified Chinese translation. (100%)

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * test-apt-download-progress: Use a larger file for testing
  * Allow lowering trust level of a hash via config

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * Use systemd.timer instead of a cron job (Closes: #600262, #709675, #663290)
    (LP: #246381, #727685)

  [ David Kalnischkies ]
  * use buffered writing for InRelease splitting

  [ Takuma Yamada ]
  * Japanese program translation update (Closes: 819938)

 -- Michael Vogt <mvo at debian.org>  Tue, 05 Apr 2016 20:23:47 +0200

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  /etc/cron.daily/apt randomly delays other jobs

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apt

  Hi,

  (affects 10.04 LTS as well)

  anacron executes
    run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
  daily. run-parts runs the job in /etc/cron.daily one after the other in alphabetical order.

  /etc/cron.daily/apt is one of the first to be executed, and contains a
  random_sleep to avoid all ubuntu machines on the world hitting the
  server at the same time. This makes sense, but randomly delays all the
  other tasks in /etc/cron.daily, and causes inconsistencies, e.g.
  logrotates do not cover exactly 24 hours, but sometimes more,
  sometimes less.

  Would be nice to send this apt job either to the background or run it
  as the last job (ie. rename to zzapt or something like this).

  regards

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: apt 0.8.3ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Mar  2 10:59:29 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/tcsh
  SourcePackage: apt

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