-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 16 January 2004 19:14, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:00:39PM +0200, Martin Tsachev wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Friday 16 January 2004 18:23, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:41:24PM +0200, Martin Tsachev wrote: > > > > If I move some files from /var/cache/apt/archives and symlink to them > > > > I can uninstall and then install again a package only if the parent > > > > directory does not contain spaces. If there are spaces apt will fail > > > > to quote the filename and dpkg errors. > > > > > > Can you show me an example of what you mean? I do not think that apt > > > would dereference the symlinks at all. > > > > apt-get install mc > > > > installed, I get /var/cache/apt/archives/mc-something.deb > > > > now move mc-something.deb in /data/backup/debian 2004-01-16/ > > ln -sf "/backup/debian 2004-01-16/mc-something.deb" > > /var/cache/apt/archives/ mc-something.deb > > > > apt-get remove mc > > > > > > Now if you do apt-get install mc again it will fail. > > This works fine for me. Here is a transcript of it working: > > mizar:[/tmp] ls -l /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2004-01-16 09:09 > /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb -> /tmp/foo bar > baz/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb mizar:[/tmp] ls -l > /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root > root 41 2004-01-16 09:09 > /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb -> /tmp/foo bar > baz/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb mizar:[/tmp] sudo apt-get remove tvtime && > sudo apt-get install tvtime Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > tvtime > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. > After unpacking 1368kB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Reading changelogs... Done > (Reading database ... 102121 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing tvtime ... > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Suggested packages: > libdscaler > The following NEW packages will be installed: > tvtime > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/585kB of archives. > After unpacking 1368kB of additional disk space will be used. > Reading changelogs... Done > Preconfiguring packages ... > Selecting previously deselected package tvtime. > (Reading database ... 102066 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking tvtime (from .../tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb) ... > Setting up tvtime (0.9.12-2) ... > Creating video devices in `/dev'. > .devfsd presence implies active DevFS. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation. > > mizar:[/tmp] ls -l /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2004-01-16 09:09 > /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb -> /tmp/foo bar > baz/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb mizar:[/tmp] > > Can you show me a _transcript_ of it failing? It seems clear that your > problem likely has nothing to do with either dpkg or spaces in the > filename. > > > E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the mc package. This might mean you > > need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch) > > This error is from apt, not dpkg (dpkg is not invoked yet, and won't be > because of this error).
Yah, it seems it doesn't actually mc has problems with quoting spaces if you hit enter on a deb (probably all other files too) that got me mistaken. So not that error but probably something else, here's a full transcript: apt-get remove xchat Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: xchat 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 286 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 557kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 69992 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xchat ... ll /var/cache/apt/archives/xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 16 17:45 /var/cache/apt/ archives/xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb -> /data/cd/debian-2003-09-21// xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb ll /data/cd/debian-2003-09-21//xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 211 May 2 2003 /data/cd/ debian-2003-09-21//xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb apt-get install xchat=2.0.2-1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: xchat 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 286 not upgraded. E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the xchat package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch) apt-get install xchat=2.0.2-2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Version '2.0.2-2' for 'xchat' was not found So it must know that xchat 2.0.2-1 exists. dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package xchat. (Reading database ... 69979 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xchat (from .../xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up xchat (2.0.2-1) ... Thanks for the fast response, and sorry for the misleading title. - -- Martin Tsachev http://martin.f2o.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFACCRGypytlz9Py3wRAv6qAJ9A/V0SmX/36wSLTgjgCLwiD65mAQCeKatA XCJWoKZisdyT0TZL1u9DaC8= =7GSH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
