Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.0.48
Severity: normal
Recently I started getting the error messages during my apt-get call.
I tracked them down to the following call in apt-listbugs:
changelog = `/usr/bin/dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile #{pkgpath} | tar -x -O
./usr/share/doc/#{field["package"]}/#{chfile} -f - 2> /dev/null | gzip -d 2>
/dev/null`
The tar program is called in the following way:
$ tar -x -O dummy -f -
This works fine as long as the TAPE environment variable is not set,
however:
$ TAPE=/dev/nst0 tar -x -O dummy -f -
tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
This is the reason for the error message shown in the subject line.
This problem can simply be solved by changing the order of the parameters:
$ TAPE=/dev/nst0 tar -x -f - -O dummy
... Waiting for input
I assume tar stops parsing the flags after the first pathname
parameter (dummy in the example) like it should according to the
single unix specification, so it nevers sees the "-f -" option to read
from stdin. It just reads from stdin if the TAPE variable is unset
which should never be assumed by a software.
Torsten
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on:
ii apt 0.5.28.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libdpkg-ruby1.8 0.3.1 modules/classes for dpkg on ruby 1
ii libintl-gettext-ruby1.8 0.11-5 Gettext wrapper for Ruby 1.8
ii libruby1.8 [libzlib-ruby1.8] 1.8.2-7 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii libxml-parser-ruby1.8 0.6.8-1 Interface of expat for the scripti
ii ruby 1.8.2-1 An interpreter of object-oriented
ii tar 1.15.1-1 GNU tar
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