On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Are you using CVS? There were some corner case type bugs with the parser > that could also do this.
Yup. It's definitively the problem of apt-0.5.5 from CVS. It's buggy. If I try to get with apt-0.5.4 everything's fine. If I get the same with apt-0.5.5 it bails out. The 0.5.5 debs below are fresh from cvs, only thing I did is replace: #APT_UTILS=ftparchive sortpkgs extracttemplates APT_UTILS=sortpkgs extracttemplates to remove ftparchive from the packages to build, since I don't have db2 but db3. The 0.5.4 debs are from a debian mirror. tpo2:/usr/include# dpkg -i /home/tpo/src/kunden/ao/apt/*0.5.5*.deb (Reading database ... 128587 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace apt-utils 0.5.4-0.4 (using .../apt/apt-utils_0.5.5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement apt-utils ... Preparing to replace apt 0.5.4-0.4 (using .../ao/apt/apt_0.5.5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement apt ... Preparing to replace libapt-pkg-dev 0.5.4-0.4 (using .../libapt-pkg-dev_0.5.5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libapt-pkg-dev ... Preparing to replace libapt-pkg-doc 0.5.5-0.2 (using .../libapt-pkg-doc_0.5.5_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libapt-pkg-doc ... Setting up apt (0.5.5) ... Setting up libapt-pkg-dev (0.5.5) ... Setting up libapt-pkg-doc (0.5.5) ... Setting up apt-utils (0.5.5) ... tpo2:/usr/include# apt-get -d install dummypkg; rm /var/cache/apt/archives/dummypkg_1.3* Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dummypkg 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. E: The package index files are corrupted. No Filename: field for package dummypkg. tpo2:/usr/include# dpkg -i /home/tpo/src/kunden/ao/apt/orig/*0.5.4*.deb dpkg - warning: downgrading apt-utils from 0.5.5 to 0.5.4. (Reading database ... 128575 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace apt-utils 0.5.5 (using .../orig/apt-utils_0.5.4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement apt-utils ... dpkg - warning: downgrading apt from 0.5.5 to 0.5.4. Preparing to replace apt 0.5.5 (using .../ao/apt/orig/apt_0.5.4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement apt ... dpkg - warning: downgrading libapt-pkg-dev from 0.5.5 to 0.5.4. Preparing to replace libapt-pkg-dev 0.5.5 (using .../libapt-pkg-dev_0.5.4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libapt-pkg-dev ... Setting up apt-utils (0.5.4) ... Setting up apt (0.5.4) ... Setting up libapt-pkg-dev (0.5.4) ... tpo2:/usr/include# dpkg -i /home/tpo/src/kunden/ao/apt/orig/*0.5.4*.deb dpkg - warning: downgrading apt-utils from 0.5.5 to 0.5.4. (Reading database ... 128575 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace apt-utils 0.5.5 (using .../orig/apt-utils_0.5.4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement apt-utils ... dpkg - warning: downgrading apt from 0.5.5 to 0.5.4. Preparing to replace apt 0.5.5 (using .../ao/apt/orig/apt_0.5.4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement apt ... dpkg - warning: downgrading libapt-pkg-dev from 0.5.5 to 0.5.4. Preparing to replace libapt-pkg-dev 0.5.5 (using .../libapt-pkg-dev_0.5.4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libapt-pkg-dev ... Setting up apt-utils (0.5.4) ... Setting up apt (0.5.4) ... Setting up libapt-pkg-dev (0.5.4) ... tpo2:/usr/include# apt-get -d install dummypkg; rm /var/cache/apt/archives/dummypkg_1.3* Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dummypkg 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded. Need to get 19.6kB of archives. After unpacking 86.0kB will be used. Get:1 http://sourcepole.ch ./ dummypkg 1.3-19 [19.6kB] Fetched 19.6kB in 1s (18.2kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode If you want to debug and test yourself, you can enter the following line into /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://sourcepole.ch/sources/software/debian/ ./ since I was traversing the whole world forward and back in my quest to find the bug I'll maybe change that back to my original setup: deb http://sourcepole.ch/sources/software/debian sid main If you want to have a minimal index file that displays that behaveour, you can fetch Packages.gz from above and just leave inside 3 Packages: apt, dummypkg and any other, in that order. Other than that apt-https seems to work well. Since apt-0.5.5 seems to be broken - should I send you a patch against 0.5.4 or against 0.5.5 (allthough the chages were minimal between the two as far as I had seen)? *t ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions http://sourcepole.com Elestastrasse 18, 7310 Bad Ragaz, Switzerland Tel:+41 (81) 330 77 13, Fax:+41 (81) 330 77 12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
