Re: Bug#36201: apt: old coredump and more wrong maths
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.1.9 and 0.3.4
>
> FYI,
>
> On this newly installed slink machine, I needed gpm2 because ssh and
> ssh-askpass installations failed, so I issued `apt-get install gpm2`.
> It downloaded, configured, all well, but after printing the last message
> about ssh-askpass configuration, it segfaulted and dumped core!
Yes the 0.1.x versions have issues with some terminal emulators for some
reason, never did find out exactly why. 0.3.x doesn't.
> Now the existing bug:
>
> APT said:
> Need to get 0b/105kb of archives. After unpacking 1001kb will be used.
>
> But dpkg said:
> # dpkg -s gmp2 | grep Size
> Installed-Size: 168
>
> Maybe it counted ssh{-askpass} sizes (which were configuring after gpm2),
> too? If so, it should print the correct message. Otherwise, please fix
> the bug :)
Yes, APT includes the size of packages to configure in it's size
calculation, I guess it shouldn't eh?
Jason
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