On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 08:57:44PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Control: tag -1 patch > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 06:10:39PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > > Packages::Compress seems to not work anymore with xz compression. > > > > Only . (uncompressed), gzip and bzip2 seems to work, xz now return errors > > (see at the bottom). > > > > Same error with Sources::Compress > > > > Christian > > > > > > $ apt-ftparchive generate apt.conf > > dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/:E: write, still have 32768 to write but > > couldn't > > E: IO to subprocess/file failed - write (0: Success) > > E: write, still have 32768 to write but couldn't > > The same bug hit the Ubuntu archive when we tried to add xz support > recently. I finally got round to tracking this down. The problem is > that the liblzma-based write code needs the same tweaks that the read > code already has to cope with the situation where lzma_code returns zero > the first time through because avail_out is zero, but will do more work > if called again. > > The following patch ports the read tweaks to the write code as closely > as possible (including matching comments etc.), and it's working fine > for me now.
Can you format it with format-patch, with commit message consisting of a summary and a long description? That would be really nice. -- Debian Developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to (`inline'). Thank you.
