Package: apt-xapian-index
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Usertags: origin-ubuntu hardy ubuntu-patch
Hi,
attached is a small patch (requires python-apt 0.7.6) that forces the
cache building in memory. This works around a possible race condition
with libapt when the pkgcache.bin is re-generated in a unsafe way
(that is a different bug in libapt :/
Cheers,
Michael
diff -Nru apt-xapian-index-0.9/update-apt-xapian-index apt-xapian-index-0.9ubuntu1/update-apt-xapian-index
--- apt-xapian-index-0.9/update-apt-xapian-index 2008-06-20 03:52:21.000000000 -0500
+++ apt-xapian-index-0.9ubuntu1/update-apt-xapian-index 2008-06-20 16:47:14.000000000 -0500
@@ -127,7 +127,9 @@
#db.begin_transaction(False)
# Iterate all Debian packages
- cache = apt.Cache()
+
+ # force apt to not write a pkgcache.bin
+ cache = apt.Cache(memonly=True)
count = len(cache)
for idx, pkg in enumerate(cache):
# Print progress
@@ -164,7 +166,9 @@
#db.begin_transaction(False)
# Iterate all Debian packages
- cache = apt.Cache()
+
+ # force apt to not write a pkgcache.bin
+ cache = apt.Cache(memonly=True)
count = len(cache)
for idx, pkg in enumerate(records):
# Print progress
