patch

src/controllers/App/Utils.py

@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ def is_json(self, jsonString):
     #
     #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     def remove_ansi(self, text):
-        ansi_escape = re.compile(r'(?:\x1B[@-_]|[\x80-\x9F])[0-?]*[ -/]*[@-~]')
-
-        return ansi_escape.sub('', text)
+        try:
+            ansi_escape = re.compile(r'(?:\x1B[@-_]|[\x80-\x9F])[0-?]*[ -/]*[@-~]')
+            return ansi_escape.sub('', text)
+        # If an exception occurs, simply return the original text as it is
+        except Exception as e:
+            return text

src/controllers/Module/Reposerver/Agent.py

@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ def websocket_on_message(self, ws, message):
                                 Path(log).unlink()
                         except Exception as e:
                             # If content could not be read, then generate an error message
-                            logcontent = 'Error: could not read log file'                          
+                            logcontent = 'Error: could not read log file: ' + str(e)                        
 
                         json_response['response-to-request']['log'] = logcontent
 

src/controllers/Package/Apt.py

@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ def update(self, packagesList, update_method: str = 'one_by_one', exit_on_packag
                         cmd = [
                                 'apt-get', 'install', pkg['name'], '-y',
                                 # Debug only
-                                # '--dry-run',
+                                '--dry-run',
                                 '-o', 'Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef',
                                 '-o', 'Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold'
                             ]