Dan managed to come up with a way to reproduce a dpkg segfault. After some poking around with dpkg the problem turned out to be that the filelist was being written over the package information. Oops!
The problem seems to be a patch applied to main/filesdb.c on Dec 5 1999 (http://cvs.debian.org/dpkg/main/filesdb.c.diff?r1=1.10&r2=1.11&cvsroot=dpkg) which was included in dpkg 1.6.1 or 1.6.2. The patch came from Richard Kettlewell and reduces the dpkg memory uses. I'm going to sit down tonight and carefully go over that patch to see if I can figure out what it does wrong. If I can't figure it out I'll guess I'll undo it (and reintroduce --smallmem as well I guess). Richard, this was your patch, I expect some feedback from you as well :) Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
