Re: Important information regarding upcoming dpkg 1.16.2 upload
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> If it outputs nothing on your system, then you're fine. Otherwise
> it should give you some instructions to follow to bring it back to a
> coherent state.
There was a bug in the script. An updated version is attached.
Note that it will list your foreign packages (on INFO: lines)
but if it outputs nothing else then you're fine. It will print
lines starting with "PROBLEM: " if it detects something wrong.
Cheers,
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use Dpkg::Control;
use Dpkg::Index;
my $arch = `dpkg --print-architecture`;
chomp($arch);
my $status = Dpkg::Index->new(type => CTRL_FILE_STATUS);
$status->load("/var/lib/dpkg/status");
sub find_foreign {
my $a = shift;
return ($a ne $arch and $a ne "all");
}
# Detect multiple instances which are not M-A: same
foreach my $foreign ($status->get("Architecture" => \&find_foreign)) {
my $pkg = $foreign->{'Package'};
my $pkgarch = $foreign->{'Package'} . ':' . $foreign->{'Architecture'};
my $ma = $foreign->{'Multi-Arch'} || 'no';
print "INFO: Foreign package detected: $pkgarch (Multi-Arch: $ma)\n";
my @pkgs = $status->get("Package" => $pkg);
if (scalar(@pkgs) > 1) {
foreach my $item (@pkgs) {
$pkgarch = $item->{'Package'} . ':' . $item->{'Architecture'};
if ($item->{'Multi-Arch'} ne "same") {
print "PROBLEM: one instance of $pkg is not Multi-Arch: same";
print "SOLUTION: dpkg -P $pkgarch";
}
}
}
}
# Find broken packages
foreach my $pkg ($status->get()) {
my $ma = $pkg->{'Multi-Arch'} || '';
next if ($pkg->{'Status'} =~ m/ not-installed$/);
my $pkgarch = $pkg->{'Package'};
if ($ma eq "same") {
$pkgarch = $pkg->{'Package'} . ':' . $pkg->{'Architecture'};
}
if (! -e "/var/lib/dpkg/info/$pkgarch.list") {
print "PROBLEM: $pkgarch has missing info files\n";
print "SOLUTION: apt-get --reinstall install $pkgarch\n";
}
}
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