Taisuke Yamada <tai.deb...@cc.rakugaki.org> writes:
> Hi.
>
> I was recently hit by ia32-apt-get bug (Bug #512634) caused by
> zero-size *_Packages file, and it seems no official response was
> made since January.
>
> This can be fixed by simply ignoring such *_Packages file,
> so I'm sending in this one-line patch. Please include it in
> next release.
>
> Best Regards,
> Taisuke Yamada
> --- apt-get.orig 2009-03-09 11:39:25.000000000 +0900
> +++ apt-get 2009-03-09 11:39:11.000000000 +0900
> @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
>
> # Mangle foreign files
> for F in $LISTDIR/foreign/lists/*_*; do
> + test -s "$F" || continue
> DIR="$(dirname "$F")"
> case "$F" in
> *_Packages)
That would leave the old file in place possibly giving a checksum
error.
I've just commited the following patch to svn.debian.org pkg-ia32-libs:
--- ia32-libs-tools/mangle.cc (revision 245)
+++ ia32-libs-tools/mangle.cc (working copy)
@@ -224,7 +224,8 @@
std::vector<PkgDepOr> pkgAnd;
size_t parse(std::string& s, size_t offset) {
while(offset < s.length()) {
- if (s[offset] == ' ' || s[offset] == ',') {
+ if (s[offset] == ' ' || s[offset] == ','
+ || s[offset] == '\t' || s[offset] == '\n') {
++offset;
continue;
}
@@ -399,7 +400,9 @@
assert(buf != NULL);
}
}
- assert(buf_used > 1);
+ // In case of empty file
+ if (buf_used < 2) exit(0);
+ // Ensure end of stanza at end of file
while(buf[buf_used-2] != '\n') {
buf[buf_used++] = '\n';
}
The first chunk fixes the original problem of having multi-line
Depends in the Packages file. The second chunk fixes the problem for
empty files.
MfG
Goswin
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