fix: apt install freeipmi-tools failed on focal

src/apt_helpers.py

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+"""Apt helper module for missing features in operator_libs_linux."""
+import re
+from subprocess import PIPE, CalledProcessError, check_output
+from typing import Optional
+
+from charms.operator_libs_linux.v0 import apt
+
+
+def get_candidate_version(package: str) -> Optional[str]:
+    """Get candiate version of package from apt-cache.
+
+    Related issue: https://github.com/canonical/operator-libs-linux/issues/113
+    """
+    try:
+        output = check_output(
+            ["apt-cache", "policy", package], stderr=PIPE, universal_newlines=True
+        )
+    except CalledProcessError as e:
+        raise apt.PackageError(f"Could not list packages in apt-cache: {e.output}") from None
+
+    lines = [line.strip() for line in output.strip().split("\n")]
+    for line in lines:
+        candidate_matcher = re.compile(r"^Candidate:\s(?P<version>(.*))")
+        matches = candidate_matcher.search(line)
+        if matches:
+            return matches.groupdict().get("version")
+    raise apt.PackageError(f"Could not find candidate version package in apt-cache: {output}")
+
+
+def add_pkg_with_candidate_version(pkg: str) -> None:
+    """Install package with apt-cache candidate version.
+
+    Related issue: https://github.com/canonical/operator-libs-linux/issues/113
+    """
+    version = get_candidate_version(pkg)
+    apt.add_package(pkg, version=version, update_cache=False)

src/hw_tools.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
     SessionCreationError,
 )
 
+import apt_helpers
 from checksum import (
     PERCCLI_VERSION_INFOS,
     SAS2IRCU_VERSION_INFOS,
@@ -307,20 +308,19 @@ class IPMIStrategy(APTStrategyABC):
     # messages. The installation should be good since all of these
     # tools require the same `freeipmi-tools` to be installed.
     _name = HWTool.IPMI_SENSOR
-    pkgs = ["freeipmi-tools"]
+    pkg = "freeipmi-tools"
 
     def install(self) -> None:
-        for pkg in self.pkgs:
-            apt.add_package(pkg)
+        apt_helpers.add_pkg_with_candidate_version(self.pkg)
 
     def remove(self) -> None:
         # Skip removing because we afriad this cause dependency error
         # for other services on the same machine.
-        logger.info("IPMIStrategy skip removing %s", self.pkgs)
+        logger.info("IPMIStrategy skip removing %s", self.pkg)
 
     def check(self) -> bool:
         """Check package status."""
-        return check_deb_pkg_installed(self.pkgs[0])
+        return check_deb_pkg_installed(self.pkg)
 
 
 class RedFishStrategy(StrategyABC):  # pylint: disable=R0903
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ def bmc_hw_verifier() -> t.List[HWTool]:
     tools = []
 
     # Check if ipmi services are available
-    apt.add_package("freeipmi-tools", update_cache=False)
+    apt_helpers.add_pkg_with_candidate_version("freeipmi-tools")
 
     try:
         subprocess.check_output("ipmimonitoring".split())

tests/unit/test_apt_helpers.py

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import unittest
+from subprocess import CalledProcessError
+from unittest import mock
+
+from charms.operator_libs_linux.v0 import apt
+
+import apt_helpers
+
+APT_CACHE_POLICY_FREEIPMI_TOOLS_OUTPUT = """freeipmi-tools:
+  Installed: (none)
+  Candidate: 1.6.4-3ubuntu1.1
+  Version table:
+     1.6.9-2~bpo20.04.1 100
+        100 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/main amd64 Packages
+     1.6.4-3ubuntu1.1 500
+        500 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
+        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+     1.6.4-3ubuntu1 500
+        500 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
+"""
+
+
+class TestGetCandidateVersion(unittest.TestCase):
+    @mock.patch("apt_helpers.check_output")
+    def test_install_freeipmi_tools_on_focal(self, mock_check_output):
+        mock_check_output.return_value = APT_CACHE_POLICY_FREEIPMI_TOOLS_OUTPUT
+        version = apt_helpers.get_candidate_version("freeipmi-tools")
+        self.assertEqual(version, "1.6.4-3ubuntu1.1")
+
+    @mock.patch("apt_helpers.check_output")
+    def test_checkoutput_failed(self, mock_check_output):
+        mock_check_output.side_effect = CalledProcessError(-1, "cmd")
+
+        with self.assertRaises(apt.PackageError):
+            apt_helpers.get_candidate_version("freeipmi-tools")
+
+    @mock.patch("apt_helpers.check_output")
+    def test_checkoutput_version_not_found_error(self, mock_check_output):
+        fake_output = APT_CACHE_POLICY_FREEIPMI_TOOLS_OUTPUT.replace("Candidate", "NotCandidate")
+        mock_check_output.return_value = fake_output
+
+        with self.assertRaises(apt.PackageError):
+            apt_helpers.get_candidate_version("freeipmi-tools")

tests/unit/test_hw_tools.py

@@ -674,12 +674,16 @@ def test_remove(self, mock_apt):
 
 
 class TestIPMIStrategy(unittest.TestCase):
-    @mock.patch("hw_tools.apt")
-    def test_install(self, mock_apt):
+    @mock.patch("apt_helpers.get_candidate_version")
+    @mock.patch("apt_helpers.apt")
+    def test_install(self, mock_apt, mock_candidate_version):
         strategy = IPMIStrategy()
+        mock_candidate_version.return_value = "some-candidate-version"
         strategy.install()
 
-        mock_apt.add_package.assert_called_with("freeipmi-tools")
+        mock_apt.add_package.assert_called_with(
+            "freeipmi-tools", version="some-candidate-version", update_cache=False
+        )
 
     @mock.patch("hw_tools.apt")
     def test_remove(self, mock_apt):
@@ -832,11 +836,11 @@ def test_redfish_available_and_login_success(self, mock_bmc_address, mock_redfis
 
     @mock.patch("hw_tools.redfish_available", return_value=True)
     @mock.patch("hw_tools.subprocess")
-    @mock.patch("hw_tools.apt")
-    def test_bmc_hw_verifier(self, mock_apt, mock_subprocess, mock_redfish_available):
+    @mock.patch("hw_tools.apt_helpers")
+    def test_bmc_hw_verifier(self, mock_apt_helpers, mock_subprocess, mock_redfish_available):
         bmc_hw_verifier.cache_clear()
         output = bmc_hw_verifier()
-        mock_apt.add_package.assert_called_with("freeipmi-tools", update_cache=False)
+        mock_apt_helpers.add_pkg_with_candidate_version.assert_called_with("freeipmi-tools")
         self.assertCountEqual(
             output, [HWTool.IPMI_SENSOR, HWTool.IPMI_SEL, HWTool.IPMI_DCMI, HWTool.REDFISH]
         )
@@ -846,18 +850,18 @@ def test_bmc_hw_verifier(self, mock_apt, mock_subprocess, mock_redfish_available
         "hw_tools.subprocess.check_output",
         side_effect=subprocess.CalledProcessError(-1, "cmd"),
     )
-    @mock.patch("hw_tools.apt")
+    @mock.patch("hw_tools.apt_helpers")
     def test_bmc_hw_verifier_error_handling(
-        self, mock_apt, mock_check_output, mock_redfish_available
+        self, mock_apt_helpers, mock_check_output, mock_redfish_available
     ):
         bmc_hw_verifier.cache_clear()
         output = bmc_hw_verifier()
-        mock_apt.add_package.assert_called_with("freeipmi-tools", update_cache=False)
+        mock_apt_helpers.add_pkg_with_candidate_version.assert_called_with("freeipmi-tools")
         self.assertEqual(output, [])
 
     @mock.patch("hw_tools.redfish_available", return_value=False)
-    @mock.patch("hw_tools.apt")
-    def test_bmc_hw_verifier_mixed(self, mock_apt, mock_redfish_available):
+    @mock.patch("hw_tools.apt_helpers")
+    def test_bmc_hw_verifier_mixed(self, mock_apt_helpers, mock_redfish_available):
         """Test a mixture of failures and successes for ipmi."""
 
         def mock_get_response_ipmi(ipmi_call):
@@ -871,5 +875,5 @@ def mock_get_response_ipmi(ipmi_call):
         bmc_hw_verifier.cache_clear()
         with mock.patch("hw_tools.subprocess.check_output", side_effect=mock_get_response_ipmi):
             output = bmc_hw_verifier()
-            mock_apt.add_package.assert_called_with("freeipmi-tools", update_cache=False)
+            mock_apt_helpers.add_pkg_with_candidate_version.assert_called_with("freeipmi-tools")
             self.assertCountEqual(output, [HWTool.IPMI_SENSOR, HWTool.IPMI_SEL])