Public bug reported:
1)Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
Note: Actually Kubuntu 13.10
2)auto-apt:
Installed: 0.3.23
Candidate: 0.3.23
Version table:
*** 0.3.23 0
500 http://md.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) $ sudo auto-apt update
$ sudo auto-apt updatedb
Both commands should update the databases
4) $ sudo auto-apt update
$ sudo auto-apt updatedb
Both commands output:
put: 0 files, 0 entries done (xx seconds)
where xx is about 10 seconds.
And, no update is performed.
5) The bug is caused by line 145 in /usr/bin/auto-apt
sed -ne
's=^[[:space:]][[:space:]]*deb[[:space:]][[:space:]]*\([^:[:space:]]*\):\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]][[:space:]]*\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]][[:space:]]*.*=\1
\2/dists/\3=p' |
i.e. by the two trailing spaces in the beginning ^[[:space:]][[:space:]]*deb
At least my /etc/apt/sources.list doesn't contain any trailing spaces, which
causes the sed to return 0 sources and no update is performed by auto-apt.
6) A workaround (or maybe a fix) is to delete those [[:space:]][[:space:]]* so
the line should look like
sed -ne
's=^deb[[:space:]][[:space:]]*\([^:[:space:]]*\):\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]][[:space:]]*\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]][[:space:]]*.*=\1
\2/dists/\3=p' |
Or, at least the first trailing space in case sources.list may actually
contain any trailing spaces.
** Affects: auto-apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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auto-apt update and updatedb commands fail on 0.3.23
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