On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 16:39, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Ben Winslow wrote:
>
> > A power failure during an apt-get upgrade caused some corrupt archives,
> > causing apt-get to print:
>
> This is from debconf running apt-ftparchive and looking for the debconf
> scripts.
>
> I'm not sure how you can have a corrupted package like this, APT checks
> the file sizes on already-OK'd stuff before it will use the file. Your
> file system must have kept the right size but badly trashed the contents.
>
Yeah, that system's fs is reiser--the journal was flushed, but the file
contents weren't. (like I said, I was doing an apt-get upgrade at the
time, the power outage was completely unexpected and the system wasn't
at its normal location so it lacked a UPS.)
Should I resubmit this bug under apt-utils (apt-ftparchive)/debconf?
> Jason
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