Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal Hi!
I am currently experimenting with a local distribution and would like to work with pinning. During these experiments, I have found a buglet in apt. Thanks for michaelw for helping to debug this on IRC. [5/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://debian.toplink-plannet.de/debian/ woody main deb http://debian.toplink-plannet.de/debian/ tpl/woody main [6/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get --quiet update Hit http://debian.toplink-plannet.de woody/main Packages Hit http://debian.toplink-plannet.de woody/main Release Hit http://debian.toplink-plannet.de tpl/woody/main Packages Ign http://debian.toplink-plannet.de tpl/woody/main Release Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... [7/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy Package Files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 http://debian.toplink-plannet.de tpl/woody/main Packages origin debian.toplink-plannet.de 500 http://debian.toplink-plannet.de woody/main Packages release v=3.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=main origin debian.toplink-plannet.de Pinned Packages: [8/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /var/lib/apt/lists total 6.3M drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0k Aug 25 13:01 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0k Jul 23 13:25 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17k Aug 24 21:13 debian.toplink-plannet.de_debian_dists_tpl_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.2M Jul 19 19:33 debian.toplink-plannet.de_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93 Jul 19 19:03 debian.toplink-plannet.de_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Release -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Aug 25 13:01 lock drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0k Aug 25 13:01 partial/ [9/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Please notice that my local tpl/woody distribution does not have a Release file. apt handles this properly, ignoring the Release file, and apt-cache does not show any release info in the policy listing. Now I put a Release file on the download server. /etc/apt/sources.list remains unchanged. [9/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get --quiet update Hit http://debian.toplink-plannet.de woody/main Packages Hit http://debian.toplink-plannet.de woody/main Release Hit http://debian.toplink-plannet.de tpl/woody/main Packages Get:1 http://debian.toplink-plannet.de tpl/woody/main Release [79B] Fetched 79B in 0s (4046B/s) Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... [10/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /var/lib/apt/lists total 6.3M drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0k Aug 25 13:02 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0k Jul 23 13:25 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17k Aug 24 21:13 debian.toplink-plannet.de_debian_dists_tpl_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 Aug 25 13:00 debian.toplink-plannet.de_debian_dists_tpl_woody_main_binary-i386_Release -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.2M Jul 19 19:33 debian.toplink-plannet.de_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93 Jul 19 19:03 debian.toplink-plannet.de_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Release -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Aug 25 13:02 lock drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0k Aug 25 13:02 partial/ [11/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy Package Files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 http://debian.toplink-plannet.de tpl/woody/main Packages origin debian.toplink-plannet.de 500 http://debian.toplink-plannet.de woody/main Packages release v=3.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=main origin debian.toplink-plannet.de Pinned Packages: [12/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ This time, apt properly notices that there is a Release file, duly downloads it and puts it into /var/lib/apt/lists. But apt-cache policy doesn't seem to care, still not displaying release data for that distribution. To put apt back on track, it is necessary to remove tpl/woody from sources.list, apt-get update, put tpl/woody back again and apt-get update again. With the Release file unchanged on the download server, apt-cache policy displays the release data like it should. Please consider fixing this. Greetings Marc -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux paola 2.4.19-paola #1 Wed Aug 7 08:54:32 UTC 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
