Doesn't work on modern debian (jessie) about apt HOT 15 CLOSED

@jsirex what version of debian?

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Jessie (testing). Not released yet.
I tried to search for the package, but it presents only in wheezy/squeeze :(

https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=update-notifier-common

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UPD:

Package: update-notifier-common (0.99.3debian11+perrm2+nmu1) ... not be used by any packages not in wheezy, it will be removed before the jessie release

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👍 Having same issue here.

# uname -a 
Linux server 3.14-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.12-1 (2014-07-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available. 
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie)
Release:    testing
Codename:   jessie

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Can anyone point me at an official/semi-official cloud image I can use for testing?

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You could start out with a Debian Wheezy image on EC2, and then update to jessie.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00AA27RK4/ref=sp_mpg_product_title?ie=UTF8&sr=0-2

and then update with:

# cp /etc/apt/sources.list{,.bak}
# sed -i -e 's/ \(stable\|wheezy\)/ jessie/ig' /etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade
# apt-get dist-upgrade

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I've been trying to use bento to build an image but running into issues getting packer to work. @cwebberOps do you want my packer definition and see if you can get any further ?

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I have a working bento definition now. You can see it here.

https://github.com/kisoku/bento/tree/debian-8

Please take note that this bento definition uses a daily snapshot and will probably not work out of the box. You will need to update the ISO checksum with the checksum from today's ISO.

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Wow, looks like update-notifier is completely gone in Jessie, replaced by Packagekit. It's really hard to find a decent discussion of the implications of this.

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Here is a vagrant box (virtualbox provider) where we can reproduce the issue:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/vagrantboxjessie/debian80.box (from http://www.vagrantbox.es)

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Having a vagrant box to test isn't the issue here. The issue is that common-notifier is gone now, seemingly replaced by gnome-packagekit and even then it is not clear what the new mechanism is to provide the functionality we use in the apt cookbook.

gnome-packagekit pulls in enormous amount of dependencies, so I am reluctant to install it

I welcome anyone who wishes to propose a way forward to do so here or at least come and discuss it in the gitter chat room I set up for this cookbook.

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This serverfault post provides a reasonable solution:
http://serverfault.com/questions/20747/find-last-time-update-was-performed-with-apt-get

Instead of using update-notifier (which is really for updating the desktop notification for users of new package/security updates) add an apt.conf.d file that touches /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp after each update.

I don't know if apt itself creates the periodic directory, or if that came from update-notifier.

1 less dependency, 1 extra file.

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Debian Jessie is going to become stable in probably less than a month (give or take). As this cookbook is used in about all setups, it would be crucial to resolve this issue until Jessie is stable.

There are now two different alternatives to solve this issue in #115 and #121. It would be great if you could comment on the issue and work with the community to resolve this hard incompatibility.

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Could you please raise the priority on this issue? It's becoming a pain, since it blocks early-on testing on Jessie RC.

It seems that the authors of both pull requests agree that the latest version of #121 is the way to go.

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@thommay can you take a look at this?

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