apt: Run apt-get -f install before other commands

Run `apt-get --fix-broken install` before installing package or manual
update. This will attempt to correct broken dependencies.

Tests:
- Install a package without its dependencies using `dpkg -i`.
- Both app install and manual update successfully recover from this
  situation.

Signed-off-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
Reviewed-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>

actions/packages

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import apt.cache
 import apt_inst
 import apt_pkg
 from plinth import cfg
+from plinth.action_utils import run_apt_command
 
 LOCK_FILE = '/var/lib/dpkg/lock'
 
@@ -68,29 +69,9 @@ def _apt_hold():
             subprocess.run(['apt-mark', 'unhold', 'freedombox'], check=True)
 
 
-def _run_apt_command(arguments):
-    """Run apt-get with provided arguments."""
-    # Ask apt-get to output its progress to file descriptor 3.
-    command = [
-        'apt-get', '--assume-yes', '--quiet=2', '--option', 'APT::Status-Fd=3'
-    ] + arguments
-
-    # Duplicate stdout to file descriptor 3 for this process.
-    os.dup2(1, 3)
-
-    # Pass on file descriptor 3 instead of closing it.  Close stdout
-    # so that regular output is ignored.
-    env = os.environ.copy()
-    env['DEBIAN_FRONTEND'] = 'noninteractive'
-    process = subprocess.run(command, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
-                             stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, close_fds=False,
-                             env=env)
-    return process.returncode
-
-
 def subcommand_update(arguments):
     """Update apt package lists."""
-    sys.exit(_run_apt_command(['update']))
+    sys.exit(run_apt_command(['update']))
 
 
 def subcommand_install(arguments):
@@ -114,8 +95,9 @@ def subcommand_install(arguments):
         extra_arguments += ['-o', 'Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew']
 
     with _apt_hold():
-        returncode = _run_apt_command(['install'] + extra_arguments +
-                                      arguments.packages)
+        run_apt_command(['--fix-broken', 'install'])
+        returncode = run_apt_command(['install'] + extra_arguments +
+                                     arguments.packages)
 
     sys.exit(returncode)
 

actions/upgrades

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import re
 import subprocess
 import sys
 
+from plinth.action_utils import run_apt_command
 from plinth.modules.apache.components import check_url
 
 AUTO_CONF_FILE = '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades'
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ def parse_arguments():
 
 def subcommand_run(_):
     """Run unattended-upgrades"""
+    run_apt_command(['--fix-broken', 'install'])
     try:
         subprocess.Popen(['systemctl', 'start', 'freedombox-manual-upgrade'],
                          stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,

plinth/action_utils.py

@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ def webserver_disable(name, kind='config', apply_changes=True):
 
 class WebserverChange(object):
     """Context to restart/reload Apache after configuration changes."""
+
     def __init__(self):
         """Initialize the context object state."""
         self.actions_required = set()
@@ -388,3 +389,23 @@ def is_disk_image():
     - Installing packages on a Debian machine using apt.
     """
     return os.path.exists('/var/lib/freedombox/is-freedombox-disk-image')
+
+
+def run_apt_command(arguments):
+    """Run apt-get with provided arguments."""
+    # Ask apt-get to output its progress to file descriptor 3.
+    command = [
+        'apt-get', '--assume-yes', '--quiet=2', '--option', 'APT::Status-Fd=3'
+    ] + arguments
+
+    # Duplicate stdout to file descriptor 3 for this process.
+    os.dup2(1, 3)
+
+    # Pass on file descriptor 3 instead of closing it.  Close stdout
+    # so that regular output is ignored.
+    env = os.environ.copy()
+    env['DEBIAN_FRONTEND'] = 'noninteractive'
+    process = subprocess.run(command, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+                             stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, close_fds=False,
+                             env=env)
+    return process.returncode