Re: Problem w/ console-apt installing from CD-ROM
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:46:24PM +0000, "W. Borgert" <debacle@knorke.in-berlin.de> was heard to say:
> when I try to install a package from CD-ROM using the
> console-apt (0.7.7.2potato2) I get the following error
> message:
>
> Package manager (dpkg) failed:
>
> * Internal Error, Pathname to install is not absolute 'package_version_i386.deb'
>
> Press enter to continue ...
>
> When I use apt-get install package everything works fine.
> What do I wrong here? Or is it a bug in console-apt?
This is a bug in console-apt which should be trivial to fix. In fact,
it may even be fixed in woody (I don't know) It's identical to a bug I fixed
about a week ago in aptitude; see http://bugs.debian.org/71091 for more info.
(the bug is still open because the fixed version isn't uploaded to woody yet)
In short, here's what I wrote in the last message on that report.
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I fixed this. It turned out that the problem was simple -- I was testing
whether FetchNeeded was greater than 0 before performing the download, and
skipping it if it was not. Unfortunately, this caused the observed problem
with local files. Since this test is pretty useless, I removed it to fix the
problem. Thanks to everyone who helped track this down, especially Jason
for analyzing a massive strace.
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-- ie, I was abusing libapt.
Daniel
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