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package_resource script is outdated

Bug #1184197 reported by Sylvain Pineau on 2013-05-25

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Checkbox	Fix Released	Low	Sylvain Pineau

package_resource is outdated

1) packages states/flags definition is out-of-date in the script (precise+)
2) dpkg -l returns a new architecture column by default (quantal+)

1) is a minor issue but 2) removes the description field content by the arch value.

[Expected result]

name: zlib1g
version: 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13ubuntu2
description: compression library - runtime
desired: Install
status: Installed

[Actual result]

version: 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13ubuntu2
status: Installed
desired: Install
name: zlib1g:amd64
description: amd64

Merged into lp:checkbox at revision 2163

Zygmunt Krynicki (community): Approve on 2013-06-01

Sylvain Pineau: Needs Resubmitting on 2013-05-30

Brendan Donegan (community): Needs Information on 2013-05-26

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Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau) wrote on 2013-05-25:

1) is pretty easy to fix, the packages states, selection states and flags just need to be updated from the dpkg man page.

To solve 2) I would suggest to use dpkg-query directly to select the field that we need.

Changed in checkbox:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged
assignee:	nobody → Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau)
status:	Triaged → In Progress

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Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau) wrote on 2013-05-25:

dpkg-query cannot be used for precise, support for virtual output binary:Summary and db:Status-Abbrev fields is only available since dpkg 1.16.2 (See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/1.16.3ubuntu1).

Only an hybrid version could work for all releases, the current parser for precise using 'dpkg -l' and a new one using dpkg-query for quantal+.

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Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau) wrote on 2013-06-05:

the proposed fix is only relying on dpkg-query:

dpkg-query -W -f='name: ${Package}\nversion: ${Version}\n\n'

This command works for all versions and remove the need of having a dedicated script to create this resource.

Daniel Manrique (roadmr) on 2013-06-05

Changed in checkbox:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan) on 2013-07-01

Changed in checkbox:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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