Bug#194601: apt: available file corrupted on update

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> The "available" file is created by the apt dselect method using "apt-cache
> dumpavail".  Do you find something wrong in the output of this command when
> you run it manually?  Is the available file already corrupt before dselect
> or dpkg tries to read it?

The available file is actually created by dpkg based on data from
apt-cache dumpavail. apt-cache dumpavail does a direct byte for byte copy
of portions of the files in var/lib/apt/lists so it isn't going to be
mangling only the architecture field.

IIRC there was a bug in older dpkg's that went something like this..

Jason