Tests:
- Add a comment and /etc/apt/sources.list file. Distribution upgrade page does
not load and fails with an error.
- With the patch, page loads properly. Distribution upgrade can be triggered.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
[jvalleroy: Fix test for release date]
Signed-off-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
Closes: #2511.
- By adding bind9 to the list of packages to be held during distribution
upgrade.
Tests:
- Install bind app on Bookworm. Check that /etc/bind/named.conf.options has been
updated. Run distribution upgrade to Trixie. Notice that the configuration file
is unchanged. A new .dpkg-dist file is available with the new version of the
configuration. Journal messages show that bind was held during distupgrade and
force upgrade was later run on it.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
Closes: #2509
If the user has changed a configuration file of a package outside of FreedomBox,
the distribution upgrade process could face a configuration file prompt and fail
midway. When using unattended-upgrades, these packages are not a problem as they
would left untouched at an old version and the rest of the system would be
upgraded. In case of distribution upgrade, these packages could cause the
distribution upgrade to fail and leave the system in an unusable state. Rather
than halt distribution upgrade midway due to a configuration file prompt, it is
better to overwrite with the new configuration. Backup copy of the old
configuration will be available to the user to later merge with the new
configuration.
For packages managed by FreedomBox, packages with configuration file prompt will
be held back during upgrade and later carefully upgraded with merge. These
package are not subject to --force-confnew option.
Tests:
- Install GNOME and edit the configuration file
/etc/fwupd/remotes.d/lvfs-testing.conf. Upgrade to Trixie. Distribution upgrade
was successful. Notice that the configuration file was force upgraded. Log shows
that new configuration file was installed as requested. Running 'apt -f install'
shows that there are not apt fixes pending.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
Closes: #2498.
- Now, as soon as service starts, it will perform force upgrade operations and
post-installation app setup operations. So, it is no loner necessary to wait for
10 minutes and trigger the one of the operations with 'apt-get update'.
- In addition, the post-installation operations are triggered more explicitly
and sooner.
Tests:
- Install MediaWiki on Bookworm. Run distribution upgrade to Trixie and it
works. Log shows that post install operations were performed and mediawiki setup
was rerun.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
- This is important because only if all the command succeed, the changes to
/etc/apt/sources.list file are committed.
Tests:
- Set the time to 2025-09-20. Distribution updates are triggered. 'apt update'
fails due an mismatch with release file's timestamp. Instead of proceeding, the
distribution upgrade is halted.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
- This will help identify these snapshots more easily in case a revert it
needed.
Tests:
- Start a distribution upgrade. Notice that the snapshot taken has special
description that it was taken before a distribution upgrade.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
Closes: #2090
- Create a new page for distribution upgrade.
- If distribution upgrade is running show its status here without any other UI.
- Show various conditions for not allowing distribution upgrades.
- Automatic updates disabled
- Distribution updates disabled
- Not enough free space.
- Unknown or mixed distribution in sources.list.
- If distribution upgrade was interrupted, show that information here and allow
triggering distribution upgrade again. This is detected by noticing that
codename in base-files is higher than one detected in sources.list.
- If the user is not testing/unstable, show a message and don't allow
triggering.
- If next stable has not been released, don't auto-upgrade but allow manual
upgrade. Show special warnings.
- If next stable has been released but only recently, don't auto-upgrade but
allow manual upgrade.
- If next stable has been released and it has been 30 days, allow auto-upgrade
and manual upgrade.
- Seek confirmation before triggering manual upgrade. Provide appropriate
advice.
- Rely on hard-coded list of releases and their release dates instead of
querying the server.
Tests:
- When automatic updates or distribution updates are disabled, an alert message
is shown distribution upgrade page. If both are disabled, both messages show up
in the alert. The start distribution upgrade button is disabled. Clicking on the
button does not work.
- Reducing the available free disk space will cause alert message to show up and
start upgrade button to be disabled.
- When the distribution in /etc/apt/sources.list is mixed or unknown, an alert
message is shown. the start distribution upgrade button is disabled.
- When the distribution in /etc/apt/sources.list is testing or unstable, an
alert message is shown "You are on a rolling release distribution...". the start
distribution upgrade button is disabled. The current distribution is
'None (testing)' or 'None (unstable)'. Next stable distribution is Unknown.
- If get_current_release is hard-coded to return (None, 'trixie'). Then a
message is show in the distribution update page 'A previous run of distribution
update may have been interrupted. Please re-run the distribution update.' A
'Continue Distribution Update' button is shown in warning color. The button
takes to confirm page where the confirm button is shown in blue and is enabled.
- On a bookworm VM, visiting the page shows the message "You are on the latest
stable distribution...". Upgrade button shows in red. Clicking it takes to
confirmation page. The page shows a warning alert and red confirmation button.
- Setting the clock to '2025-08-21' shows the message "A new stable distribution
is available. Your FreedomBox will be update automatically in 4 weeks...".
Upgrade button shows in blue. Clicking it takes to confirmation page. The page
does show warning. The button is in blue.
- Setting the clock to '2025-09-30' shows the message "A new status distribution
is available. Your FreedomBox will be updated automatically soon...". Upgrade
button shows in blue. Clicking it takes to confirmation page. The page does show
warning. The button is in blue.
- Clicking the confirmation button starts the distribution upgrade process. This
distribution upgrade page is shown. The page shows spinner with a message and no
other UI. Page is refreshed every 3 seconds. When the distribution upgrade
process is completed, the page shows the current status.
- Killing the apt-get process during distribution upgrade stop the page refresh.
The page shows that process was interrupted and also continuation. Clicking on
the confirmation button resumes the distribution upgrade process.
- After distribution upgrade, the page shows the current distribution and next
distribution properly. There is not release date for the next distribution. A
message shows: "Next stable distribution is not available yet."
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
- 12 hours might genuinely not enough with SD cards, slow download speeds, and
large number of packages (due to apps such as GNOME).
Tests:
- None
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
- We have a hook that triggers when 'apt update' is successfully run. This hook
handles the force upgrading mechanism. It's intended purpose is to handle
packages with configuration file prompts that unattended-upgrades does not
touch. 'apt update' is run on behalf of unattended-upgrades every day on a
schedule. This is the primary time the hook is intended to run. However, the
hook also run every time FreedomBox runs 'apt update' before installing an app.
Also no operations are performed, there is a race to see of apt is available for
the operation.
- Avoid these unnecessary runs by setting an environmental variable and by
checking it before running the trigger.
- There is one place where we want to genuinely run the trigger. That is after a
distribution upgrade. Handle this case.
Tests:
- When apt update is run on the command line, the hook is triggered.
- When installing an app, however, the hook is not triggered.
- During a dist-upgrade, the hook is triggered at the end.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
Closes: #2490
Tests:
- Unit tests works.
- On a fresh stable container, enable auto updates. Run 'apt install
mumble-server' and kill the apt process when it is unpacking. After this any apt
install command will ask for running dpkg --configure -a. At this time, run the
Testing dist upgrade. Dist upgrade starts successfully and then shows the
message 'Fixing any broken apt/dpkg states...'. It also shows that packages that
were not setup have been setup. Dist upgrades proceeds after that.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
- Save changes to /etc/apt/sources.list as a different file.
- When launching the dist upgrade process via systemd-run, use bind mounting to
ensure that the newly created sources file is treated as the original
/etc/apt/sources.list.
- If the process completes successfully, rename the new file to the original
sources.list. If the process terminates abruptly or machine reboots,
sources.list will remain unchanged. This will also the dist upgrade process to
be restarted (and hopefully continued).
Tests:
- On a fresh stable container, running dist-upgrade succeeds.
- While dist-upgrade is running, /etc/apt/sources.list is unmodified. After the
operation is successfully completed, /etc/apt/sources.list has been updates
successfully. If the operation fails, /etc/apt/sources.list remains unmodified.
- During the run the following are run:
- apt update
- package holds
- debconf selections
- full-upgrade
- autoremove
- unattended-upgrades
- restarting freedombox service
- waiting 10 minutes
- apt update
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
- When an action is invoked, it configured to handle console and journal
handlers. Console logger (StreamHandler) flushes after each event. Journal event
is sent immediately after the event. So, we are not losing the immediate flush
advantage by switching to logging framework.
- Since console logging is present (and the output is not captured away), using
journal handler also will double log each event. Remove the journal handler.
Console is where the output of various commands is logged. So, keep that.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
- A service with the same name can't be started again.
- Transient service goes away as soon as the process ends. This is like
automatically removing the flag. This ensures that stale file does not cause an
issue.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
Closes: #2493.
Tests:
- For each of the packages in the list, download the Bookworm version and Trixie
version of the packages. See if the files in /etc/ that were modified were also
files we also modify. If so, keep it in the list. Otherwise, remove it from the
list.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
Helps: #2493.
- searx will not be part of Trixie.
- This special upgrade code is not required for Bookworm -> Trixie upgrade.
- This code is not be invoked for Bullseye -> Bookworm upgrade as this removal
will not reach Bullseye.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
