Bug#186026: marked as done (dpkg: functionality of localepurge integrated with dpkg + enhanced)
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From: Tyler 'Crackerjack' MacDonald <tyler@yi.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: dpkg: functionality of localepurge integrated with dpkg + enhanced
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Severity: wishlist
There's a problem with debsums and other programs unneccessarily exiting
with a failure exit code on debian systems where localepurge is used.
The reason for this problem is that while localepurge deletes superfluous
files in debian distributions on a case-by-case basis in what I think is a
very elegant, but incomplete fashion; the files are moved, but the entries
in dpkg's /var/lib/dpkg/ -.list and -.md5sums files remain. So next time a
package's integrity is checked (by debsums, dpkg, or whatever), it thinks
that the package is corrupt.
I was talking with localepurge's author, Paul Seelig <pseelig@debian.org>,
and he told me that localepurge as it stands now can't do anything about
that:
<me>
> > I think this problem could be transformed from a major one into a minor
> > one by localepurge cleaning up after itself after cleaning up after the
> > extra locales - by removing entires from the appropriate .list and
> > .md5sums files in /var/lib/dpkg as (or after) locale files are purged.
<pseelig@debian.org>
> Nope, i definitely won't mess around with other packages files because in
> the case of everything under /var/lib/dpkg this would mean touching on
> dpkg's domain. This would securely create unmanagable side effects and my
> immediate expulsion from the Debian project. ;-)
Makes sense to me. So is the best solution, then, to move localepurge into
the dpkg distribution so that it's maintained by the same people who
maintain the /var/lib/dpkg/ files? Or is there some other, better way? Maybe
a command-line utility in the dpkg distribution that localepurge could call
to "safely" remove these entries from .list and .md5sums?
This is obviously a far less important problem than many of the hundreds of
entries on dpkg's outstanding bug list, so I don't expect any of you to have
the time to deal with it soon... but it would be nice to see all of debian's
package management utilities live harmoniously one day. :-)
Thanks!!!!
- Tyler
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From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: Tyler 'Crackerjack' MacDonald <tyler@yi.org>,
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Subject: Re: Bug#186026: dpkg: functionality of localepurge integrated with dpkg + enhanced
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Previously Tyler 'Crackerjack' MacDonald wrote:
> The reason for this problem is that while localepurge deletes superfluous
> files in debian distributions on a case-by-case basis in what I think is a
> very elegant, but incomplete fashion; the files are moved, but the entries
> in dpkg's /var/lib/dpkg/ -.list and -.md5sums files remain. So next time a
> package's integrity is checked (by debsums, dpkg, or whatever), it thinks
> that the package is corrupt.
Right, localpurge corrupts a package according to dpkg.
> Makes sense to me. So is the best solution, then, to move localepurge into
> the dpkg distribution so that it's maintained by the same people who
> maintain the /var/lib/dpkg/ files? Or is there some other, better way? Maybe
> a command-line utility in the dpkg distribution that localepurge could call
> to "safely" remove these entries from .list and .md5sums?
A better way is to add support for optional parts of a package so dpkg
can decide if it is safe to remove or not install something. I'll put
that on the enhancement proposal list.
Wichert.
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