I recently started having problems with apt-cross on my system. It was failing to recognize the suite I was passing to it. Everything is up to date on my Squeeze testing system, and I am using apt-cross 0.13.4 and libcache-apt-perl 0.13.4. It seems that the problem stems from what I can only assume is a change in the output of 'apt-cache policy'. I found the offending line that is no longer matching in /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm and fixed it. Below are the results of my debugging process.
Best Regards, -Jim Heck ** Failing output of apt-cross jh...@squeeze2:~/opt-crosslibs-101108$ apt-cross -v -a armel -m http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ -S testing -u Use of uninitialized value $max_pri_suite in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm line 273. Use of uninitialized value $Cache::Apt::Config::codename in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm line 274. Use of uninitialized value $max_pri_suite in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm line 273. Use of uninitialized value $Cache::Apt::Config::codename in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm line 274. Use of uninitialized value $max_pri_suite in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm line 276. Use of uninitialized value $max_pri_suite in hash element at /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm line 276. Unable to determine apt-cache policy for Debian main! - using unstable. at /usr/bin/apt-cross line 156 Updating testing on armel using http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ debug: recreating /home/jheck/.apt-cross/sources.testing Adding http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ to /home/jheck/.apt-cross/sources.testing Updating apt-cache for armel Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg [835 B] ... ** Current output of 'apt-cache policy' for my machine jh...@squeeze2:~$ apt-cache policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages release o=Debian,a=testing,n=squeeze,l=Debian,c=main origin ftp.us.debian.org Pinned packages: ** Match line difference that gets everything working again in /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm jh...@squeeze2:~$ diff -Naur /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm.orig /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm --- /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm.orig 2010-02-27 14:12:31.000000000 -0500 +++ /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm 2010-11-08 13:25:58.000000000 -0500 @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ open POLICY, "apt-cache policy |" or carp "Unable to read apt policy: $!"; return "unstable" unless <POLICY>; for (<POLICY>) { - if (/^\s*(\d+)\s(\w+):.*\s+(\w+)\/\w+\/?\w*\sPackages$/) { + if (/^\s*(\d+)\s(\w+):.*\s+(\w+)\/\w+\/?\s+\w+\s+Packages$/) { $cur_pri = $1; $codename = $3; # Improved to detect cdrom only installs. Anthony Sharobaiko < [email protected]> ** Working output from apt-cross with the above patch to /usr/share/perl5/Cache/Apt/Config.pm jh...@squeeze2:~/opt-crosslibs-101108$ apt-cross -v -a armel -m http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ -S testing -u Updating testing on armel using http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ debug: recreating /home/jheck/.apt-cross/sources.testing Adding http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ to /home/jheck/.apt-cross/sources.testing Updating apt-cache for armel Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg [835 B] ...
