On 2016-03-02 20:00 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.7.7-1
> Severity: important
>
> Like many people, I have a local repository in a flat directory, managed
> by apt-ftp-archive. The latest aptitude version triggers an internal
> apt error trying to install packages from this repository and also
> messes up the terminal, introducing a "staircase" effect (the error
> message itself comes from libapt-pkg, see apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc in the
> apt source):
>
> ,----
> | $ LANG=C sudo aptitude reinstall linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau
> | The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
> | linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau
> | 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 12
> not upgraded.
> | Need to get 0 B/6490 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
> | E: Internal Error, Pathname to install is not absolute
> 'linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau_4.5.0-rc6-1_i386.deb'
> |
> Failed to perform requested operation on
> package. Trying to recover:
> |
> | $ echo $?
> | 255
> `----
>
> Downgrading aptitude (and aptitude-common) to 0.7.6-1 fixes this.
Bisection shows commit c447ba44b8c69b5fad7efada9da2832312ec8558
("Only lock package cache dirs and call pkgAcquire->Run() when necessary
(Closes: #766122)") as the one which introduced the problem.
Cheers,
Sven
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