On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 20:48 -0500, Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 08:04:56AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > I've just received the following in a cron mail:
> >
> > /etc/cron.weekly/approx:
> > File
> /var/cache/approx/debian/dists/experimental/main/source/Sources.xz,
> line 1: missing "Files" field
> > run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/approx exited with return code 1
> >
> > Which I pressume relates to the changes announced in
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/03/msg00006.htm
> l
> >
> > Tagging as blocking the corresponding archive bug.
> >
> > There is a newer version in sid but the changelog doesn't indicate
> that it
> > resolves this issue.
>
> I can't reproduce this problem. When I include a deb-src line for
> experimental, I don't see any Sources.xz files in my approx server's
> cache.
It perhaps depends on the version of apt being used and which
compression it prefers? My system with experimental configured is a
mostly-testing/some-unstable infrequently updated one, which doesn't
tell us much since I don't know what I was running when that file was
created.
> Can you please send me the output of
> ls -l /var/cache/approx/debian/dists/experimental/main/source/
Some weeks ago my /var/cache/approx filled up so I manually removed
that file and ran the cleanup, which succeeded. However since then I am
sure I've been getting cron messages about other paths, but stupidly I
seem to have been deleting it rather than archiving it.
I've just run the following by hand and it matches what I recall the
most recent cron mail to look like:
root@celaeno:~# /usr/sbin/approx-gc
File /var/cache/approx/debian-multimedia/dists/sid/main/source/Sources.xz, line
1: missing "Files" field
This will correspond to my mythtv box (another testing/unstable hybrid,
not updated as often as I should) which has in sources.list:
# mythtv, liblame, mplayer etc
deb http://mirror/debian-multimedia/ sid main
deb-src http://mirror/debian-multimedia/ sid main
To answer your question, I see:
root@celaeno:~# ls -lrt /var/cache/approx/debian/dists/experimental/main/source/
total 264
-rw-r--r-- 1 approx approx 261196 Jul 12 03:31 Sources.xz
---------- 1 approx approx 0 Oct 19 09:12 Sources
drwxr-xr-x 3 approx approx 4096 Oct 23 04:38 by-hash
Which I suppose is no longer relevant to this bug but I included it
because the files are so old and Sources is zero sized which seemed odd
to me (and doesn't match the official mirrors). I just ran "apt update"
on a system with experimental configured and those files have not
changed (the system also runs cronapt nightly). I then ran "apt update
--print-uris and from that ran "curl -o /dev/null http://mirror/debian/
dists/experimental/main/source/Sources.xz" and now:
root@celaeno:~# ls -lrt /var/cache/approx/debian/dists/experimental/main/source/
total 208
---------- 1 approx approx 0 Oct 19 09:12 Sources
drwxr-xr-x 3 approx approx 4096 Oct 23 04:38 by-hash
-rw-r--r-- 1 approx approx 201732 Nov 16 02:18 Sources.xz
I've no idea what is up with a plain "apt update", but not a approx
issue I guess.
WRT this bug I suppose you would now be more interested in:
root@celaeno:~# ls -rtl
/var/cache/approx/debian-multimedia/dists/sid/main/source
total 348
drwxr-xr-x 2 approx approx 4096 May 22 2013 Sources.diff
-rw-r--r-- 1 approx approx 134988 Jul 24 2015 Sources.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 approx approx 140282 Jul 30 15:09 Sources.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 approx approx 57992 Nov 12 18:08 Sources.xz
A representative first stanza from the Sources.xz is:
Package: 2mandvd-dmo
Binary: 2mandvd, 2mandvd-data
Version: 1:1.8.5-dmo4
Maintainer: Christian Marillat < [email protected] >
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), quilt, ccache, libswscale-dev,
libavformat-dev, libqt4-dev (>= 4:4.7.2~), libqt4-opengl-dev, libqtwebkit-dev,
libavcodec-dev
Build-Conflicts: qtbase5-dev
Architecture: any all
Standards-Version: 3.9.7
Format: 1.0
Checksums-Sha256:
9d5882145478bcecaf43cbecc4f70afead88538f669bcbcc08f76c5114f70316 1920
2mandvd-dmo_1.8.5-dmo4.dsc
8d34d7fd748f29ab065cec64817628b573dc4781d48fb4ead049a4b7a362f83b 29534393
2mandvd-dmo_1.8.5.orig.tar.gz
7e1c97557334517ed9ac974b0e57abccb09cba8b61eefd6c05265c835f894269 11584
2mandvd-dmo_1.8.5-dmo4.diff.gz
Homepage: http://2mandvd.tuxfamily.org/
Package-List:
2mandvd deb video extra arch=any
2mandvd-data deb video extra arch=all
Directory: pool/main/2/2mandvd-dmo
Priority: extra
Section: misc
AIUI omitting the Files block with their md5 checksums in favour of
Checksums-Sha256 (or other checksum varieties stronger than md5) is
valid and I think something Debian ftp-masters are moving towards as
well (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/03/msg00006.h
tml, although I see Files entries in
/var/cache/approx/debian/dists/experimental/main/source/Sources.xz and
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/main/source/Sources.xz
so maybe that was reverted while other tooling catches up)
HTH, happy to try other experiments etc.
Thanks,
Ian.
