Tails

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2019-03-16 15:30:17

I understand Bug #16566 is meant to cover case C, so isn’t this ticket about cases A and B, rather than B and C?

#3 Updated by alant 2019-03-16 16:46:03

intrigeri wrote:
> I understand Bug #16566 is meant to cover case C, so isn’t this ticket about cases A and B, rather than B and C?

Yes indeed, I updated the description.

#4 Updated by alant 2019-03-16 16:47:46

I think is only necessary for this scenario: I’m online preparing Tails ASP for a specific task. I’m running apt update or starting Synaptic and there are new versions of packages that I already configured as ASP. At this point everything looks good.

Then I restart my Tails offline, and some of my ASP fail to install.

Note that of I go online at some point, the situation would be solved by case C (Bug #16567).

I don’t know if we consider this as a corner case or not.

#7 Updated by Anonymous 2019-04-22 10:51:46

alant wrote:
> I sent a mail to take a decision on tails-dev ML

Quoting your mail

A bug was found in Additional Software Packages (ASP) that make the
install fail if APT lists are updated outside ASP and they reference new
version of ASP installed packages. This is likely to happen every new
Tails release. This is now solved when the user is connecting to the
network after the failed installation (<a class='issue tracker-1 status-9 priority-4 priority-default child' href='/code/issues/16566' title='Additional Software upgrade fails when APT lists are not uptodate at startup'>Bug #16566</a>).

I think the remaining issue (<a class='issue tracker-1 status-9 priority-3 priority-default child' href='/code/issues/16567' title='Additional Software should upgrade packages after APT lists update'>Bug #16567</a>) is for this scenario: I'm online
preparing Tails ASP for a specific task. I'm running apt update or
starting Synaptic and there are new versions of packages that I already
configured as ASP. At this point everything looks good.

Then I restart my Tails offline, and some of my ASP fail to install.

Note that of I go online at some point, the situation would be solved by
case C (<a class='issue tracker-1 status-9 priority-3 priority-default child' href='/code/issues/16567' title='Additional Software should upgrade packages after APT lists update'>Bug #16567</a>).

Quoting sajolida’s reply:

So if I understand correctly, it means that this bug in Additional
Software would affect only hardcore offline/airgapped users. This is
none of our personas and thus we should treat this as low priority.