reprepro fails with current linux backport
Hi all
I maintain a Linux distribution for Swiss schools. We have a local
repository of selected backports based on reprepro.
Since two days "reprepro update" fails with the following error message:
Calculating packages to get...
Error parsing ./lists/backports-debian11_bullseye-backports_main_Sources
line 14454: Ridiculous long (>= 256K) control chunk!
There have been errors!
Looking in the file backports-debian11_bullseye-backports_main_Sources
at line 14454 I find the linux package with REALLY long entries. The
first lines look like this:
Package: linux
Binary: linux-support-5.16.0-0.bpo.3, linux-doc-5.16, linux-doc,
bpftool, linux-cpupower, libcpupower1, libcpupower-dev, linux-perf,
usbip, hyperv-daemons, linux-kbuild-5.16,
linux-bootwrapper-5.16.0-0.bpo.3, linux-source-5.16, linux-source,
linux-headers-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-common,
linux-headers-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-common-rt, linux-libc-dev,
linux-config-5.16, kernel-image-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
nic-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
nic-wireless-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
nic-shared-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
serial-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
usb-serial-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
ppp-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
pata-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
cdrom-core-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
scsi-core-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
scsi-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
scsi-nic-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di,
loop-modules-5.16.0-0.bpo.3-alpha-generic-di, ...
This continues over many hundred lines...
Searching the webs for the reprepro error message I only found this bug
report in Debian:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942487
Is there anything we can do to work around or even fix this problem?
Cheers
Ronny
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