Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.53 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/debmany Tags: patch
If one uses the http://http.debian.net/ mirror redirector in their sources.list, debmany fails to download packages which are not installed. This is due to curl seeing the HTTP redirect and then just exiting, by default. The fix is very simple: add the --location option to the curl invocation: curl --location "$url" >"$file" || error "Failed to download '$url' to '$file'." (For the purpose of googling, the error you get is of the form "dpkg-deb: unexpected end of file in version number in /dev/shm/debmany.ucyvhHmoAJ/tmp.deb"). -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debian-goodies depends on: ii curl 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze2 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii dctrl-tools [grep-dc 2.14.5 Command-line tools to process Debi ii dialog 1.1-20100428-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii less 436-1 pager program similar to more ii lsof 4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files ii perl 5.10.1-17squeeze3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 interactive high-level object-orie ii whiptail 0.52.11-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe debian-goodies recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-goodies suggests: ii popularity-contest 1.49 Vote for your favourite packages a ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 desktop integration utilities from ii zenity 2.30.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
