Bug#35668: marked as done (Failing when updating dselect from apt)
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 13:00:49 +1000
From: Gordon Heydon <gjheydon@sanderson.net.au>
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Subject: Failing when updating dselect from apt
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Hello,
I have got this problem in the script /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update
Hit http://www.debian.org ~jules/e-cvs/debs/ Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Packages
Ign http://www.debian.org ~jules/e-cvs/debs/ Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit http://www.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Ign http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/non-free Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
Ign http://www.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/contrib Release
Hit http://www.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit http://www.debian.org unstable/main Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Merging Available information
$APTCACHE is [/usr/bin/apt-get]
E: Invalid operation dumpavail
As you can see the variable $APTCACHE is set to what APTGET is.
if I change the var $APTCACHE to $BPTCACHE it is fixed.
Hit http://www.debian.org ~jules/e-cvs/debs/ Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Packages
Ign http://www.debian.org ~jules/e-cvs/debs/ Release
Hit http://www.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Ign http://www.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit http://www.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit http://www.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/non-free Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
Ign http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org unstable/contrib Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Merging Available information
$BPTCACHE is [/usr/bin/apt-cache]
Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
Information about 3244 package(s) was updated.
As you can see it worked. I feel this may be a problem with bash in it's
indexing of enviroment varibles, but I have not investigated that far.
Here is my version information
ii apt 0.3.4 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii bash 2.02.1-1.4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii dpkg 1.4.1.1 Package maintenance system for Debian
Linux
Gordon Heydon
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