Bug 41977

Summary:	Help users by re-running apt-get under systemd-run
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Vitaly Chikunov <vt>
Component:	apt	Assignee:	placeholder <placeholder>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5	CC:	andy, boyarsh, glebfm, imz, iv, ldv, placeholder
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux

Description Vitaly Chikunov 2022-02-16 21:53:08 MSK

Help naïve users running apt-get install in xterm or over ssh by (creating systemd session by) re-running apt-get under systemd-run. [Of course if systemd is available.]

Perhaps, under `systemd-run --scope --user`.

Comment 1 Ivan A. Melnikov 2022-02-17 10:45:29 MSK

(In reply to Vitaly Chikunov from comment #0)
> Help naïve users running apt-get install in xterm or over ssh by (creating
> systemd session by) re-running apt-get under systemd-run. [Of course if
> systemd is available.]
> 
> Perhaps, under `systemd-run --scope --user`.

Probably, lingering should also be enabled while apt runs.

Comment 2 Vitaly Chikunov 2022-03-13 23:18:48 MSK

Alternative solution is built in https://git.altlinux.org/tasks/296591/ -- apt-get is wrapped with a child sub-reaper which does not exit until all created tasks (such as pdeath_execute) are finished. Because of this we don't need to defend them against systemd or reboot.

ps. This will not protect in case of terminal window closing, but, perhaps, systemd-run would not protect against this (not tested), because there is output to a terminal. I believe that only something similar to screen/tmux would protect from this.

Comment 3 Vitaly Chikunov 2022-03-22 00:38:36 MSK

[#296591] DONE (try 4) apt.git=0.5.15lorg2-alt76

Comment 4 Andrew Vasilyev 2022-03-22 14:43:00 MSK

Спасибо! Давно ждали!