On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:22:30 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > It fails to open /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin and then the package lists and > > status file could not be parsed.
> I think it's related to this debian/control snippet introduced in last
> version
> of libconfig-model-perl package:
> ${corelist:Depends} is computed in debian/rules:
> CORELIST = $(shell apt-cache policy libmodule-corelist-perl | awk
> '/Candidate/ {sub(/-[^-]+$$/,"",$$2); print $$2;}')
Yes, of course, that's the point where it's failing ...
> Looks like CORELIST variable can be empty in the buildd.
... because of the "fails to open /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin".
Now the interesting question is _why_ this happens.
> We need to re-think how this dependency is computed.
Hm, yeah, as Lucas has proven that might be too fragile ...
Any ideas on how to get the version without using apt-cache?
Or should we use a default version if we don't get the real one?
Or something completley different?
Cheers,
gregor
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