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Re: apt 0.6 in experimental



On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:38:16PM +0100, Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
> 
> > Yes (2.6.0)
> > apt-cache from 0.6.3 works without problems and also uses
> > libraries located in /lib/tls/. However:
> > 
> >     radiohead:/home/abi# ldd /usr/bin/apt-cache 
> >         [..]
> >         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4019c000)
> >         [..]        
> > 
> >     radiohead:/home/abi# apt-cache search foo
> >     Segmentation fault
> > 
> > (apt-get setfaults as before)
> 
> All I can say is that it works for me.  If you can find out what's
> happening, I'd like to know.  If moving away /var/cache/apt/*.bin fixes the
> problem, then somehow those files got corrupted (and in that case, it's
> unlikely that this is related to apt 0.6).

Maybe that's it:  On my ibook apt stopped working after 0.6.3.
Reverting one of the 0.6.4 changes seems to fix the segfault I'm seeing.

| apt (0.6.6.1) experimental; urgency=low
| 
|   * Local non-maintainer package.
|   * Remove the +4 after Size in apt-pkg/tagfile.cc:36.

Peter
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