Package: apt Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1 Severity: normal Hello,
both the etch and lenny versions of apt are affected by this problem. Downloading large source packages using 'apt-get source' via http leads to the following error: ----------8<---------- th...@hamilton:mnt$ apt-get source bigpkg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Need to get 2147MB of source archives. Get:1 http://apt-etch.math.uni-paderborn.de etch/main bigpkg 7.7.0.471-1 (dsc) [284B] Get:2 http://apt-etch.math.uni-paderborn.de etch/main bigpkg 7.7.0.471-1 (tar) [2147MB] Err http://apt-etch.math.uni-paderborn.de etch/main bigpkg 7.7.0.471-1 (tar) Error writing to output file - write (27 File too large) Fetched 284B in 1m40s (3B/s) Failed to fetch http://apt-etch.math.uni-paderborn.de/.../bigpkg_7.7.0.471-1.tar.gz Error writing to output file - write (27 File too large) E: Failed to fetch some archives. ----------8<---------- strace reports the following: ----------8<---------- write(4, "\232\17p\31\25\220\313}\346\263\272\261`\351h\277_x_\370"..., 11334) = 949 write(4, "\346\266M\343\240\371\217-\7TX*}\"\332\265ko\2631\213s"..., 10385) = -1 EFBIG (File too large) fcntl64(4, F_GETFL) = 0x802 (flags O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) fcntl64(4, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0 write(4, "\346\266M\343\240\371\217-\7TX*}\"\332\265ko\2631\213s"..., 10385) = -1 EFBIG (File too large) close(4) = 0 time([1237911654]) = 1237911654 utime("bigpkg_7.7.0.471-1.tar.gz", [2008/11/04-19:18:05, 2008/11/04-19:18:05]) = 0 ----------8<---------- A rebuild of apt with _LARGEFILE_SOURCE and _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 defined succeeded, but calling apt-get as shown above leads to wired behavior and a (possible) infinite loop at the end of the download process. -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Cache-Limit "25165824"; APT::Install-Recommends "false"; APT::Install-Suggests "false"; APT::Get ""; APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true"; APT::Get::List-Cleanup "true"; APT::Get::ReInstall "false"; APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Options ""; DPkg::Options:: "--abort-after=4711"; DPkg::Options:: "--force-overwrite"; -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.5-client Locale: LANG=C, lc_ctype=de...@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyr 2007.07.31~etch1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
