Re: *help* apt-https
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>
> > > > The package index file is fine though. If I have under /var/lib/apt/lists/
> > > > in my site's index:
> > > >
> > > > Package: dummypkg
> > > > Version: 1.0
> > >
> > > Well, does it have a Filename: field? :>
>
> > Yes :-) :
>
> Hmmm.
>
> try 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' if you have been messing with the apt/lists/
> directory it may be out of sync (highly unlikely, but would have these
> symptoms)
Done
> Are you using CVS?
Yes
> There were some corner case type bugs with the parser that could also do this.
>
> 'apt-cache show dummypkg' will dump the records exactly as the parser will
> see them, if something is out of wack they will not look correct.
tpo2:/home/tpo# apt-cache show dummypkg
Package: dummypkg
Version: 1.3-19
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
Architecture: i386
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/dummypkg_1.3-19_i386.deb
Size: 19706
MD5sum: 31bdbafe41da23c1de009596dc5ae593
Description: The classic greeting, and a good example
The GNU hello program produces a familiar, friendly greeting. It
allows nonprogrammers to use a classic computer science tool which
would otherwise be unavailable to them.
.
Seriously, though: this is an example of how to do a Debian package.
It is the Debian version of the GNU Project's `hello world' program
(which is itself an example for the GNU Project).
installed-size: 84
> Beyond that, using gdb and looking at Recs will eventually lead you to the
> Tag Section instance which holds the pointer to the entire string it is
> tryng to parse, if it still looks correct, you can trace into the actual
> lookup function in FileName() and see why it is angry.
Hmm... I'm currently looking at it.
Thanks a lot Jason,
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