Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)
Hi, forwarded to the popcon-developers, just in case. On Thursday 28 August 2008 01:15, Ian Jackson wrote: Holger Levsen writes (Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)): I'm reassigning this to dpkg, even though I'm not sure if this is right. Apologies for that. I don't think it is, probably. This is based on popcon data. How does popcon read the dpkg database ? Does it just read /var/lib/dpkg/status ? I assume not directly but with dpkg. If so it is missing the updates and if dpkg was interrupted or is running when popcon goes off (which I can imagine might be due to popcon's postinst running it right away), there is no reason to think the information will be quite up to date. regards, Holger pgpUOt9lvuQY1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
forwarded to the popcon-developers, just in case.
On Thursday 28 August 2008 01:15, Ian Jackson wrote:
Holger Levsen writes (Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if
this is right)):
I'm reassigning this to dpkg, even though I'm not sure if this is right.
Apologies for that.
I don't think it is, probably.
This is based on popcon data. How does popcon read the dpkg
database ? Does it just read /var/lib/dpkg/status ?
I assume not directly but with dpkg.
Precisely popularity contest use the output of
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${status} ${package}\n'
However may be it does not check if dpkg-query return an error status.
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Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)
reassign 437118 dpkg retitle 437118 Report broken package database to user close 437118 thanks Hi, I'm reassigning this to dpkg, even though I'm not sure if this is right. Apologies for that. Because, I wonder if this bug shouldn't better be closed, as dpkg informs the user/admin directly about a broken database. So feel free to close this bug. (It just surprises me there were 158 machines with a broken database reporting to popcon at the time of the bugreport... a recent thread on -devel said there was one out of 400.) Oh, well, I'm closing this bug myself now. regards, Holger pgpLzmcz8aijY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)
Holger Levsen writes (Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)): I'm reassigning this to dpkg, even though I'm not sure if this is right. Apologies for that. I don't think it is, probably. This is based on popcon data. How does popcon read the dpkg database ? Does it just read /var/lib/dpkg/status ? If so it is missing the updates and if dpkg was interrupted or is running when popcon goes off (which I can imagine might be due to popcon's postinst running it right away), there is no reason to think the information will be quite up to date. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
