Bug#228097: apt doesn't quote package filenames passed to dpkg
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On Friday 16 January 2004 19:14, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:00:39PM +0200, Martin Tsachev wrote:
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> > On Friday 16 January 2004 18:23, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:41:24PM +0200, Martin Tsachev wrote:
> > > > If I move some files from /var/cache/apt/archives and symlink to them
> > > > I can uninstall and then install again a package only if the parent
> > > > directory does not contain spaces. If there are spaces apt will fail
> > > > to quote the filename and dpkg errors.
> > >
> > > Can you show me an example of what you mean? I do not think that apt
> > > would dereference the symlinks at all.
> >
> > apt-get install mc
> >
> > installed, I get /var/cache/apt/archives/mc-something.deb
> >
> > now move mc-something.deb in /data/backup/debian 2004-01-16/
> > ln -sf "/backup/debian 2004-01-16/mc-something.deb"
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/ mc-something.deb
> >
> > apt-get remove mc
> >
> >
> > Now if you do apt-get install mc again it will fail.
>
> This works fine for me. Here is a transcript of it working:
>
> mizar:[/tmp] ls -l /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2004-01-16 09:09
> /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb -> /tmp/foo bar
> baz/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb mizar:[/tmp] ls -l
> /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
> root 41 2004-01-16 09:09
> /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb -> /tmp/foo bar
> baz/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb mizar:[/tmp] sudo apt-get remove tvtime &&
> sudo apt-get install tvtime Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> tvtime
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 1368kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Reading changelogs... Done
> (Reading database ... 102121 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing tvtime ...
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Suggested packages:
> libdscaler
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> tvtime
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/585kB of archives.
> After unpacking 1368kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Reading changelogs... Done
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Selecting previously deselected package tvtime.
> (Reading database ... 102066 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking tvtime (from .../tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up tvtime (0.9.12-2) ...
> Creating video devices in `/dev'.
> .devfsd presence implies active DevFS. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
>
> mizar:[/tmp] ls -l /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2004-01-16 09:09
> /space/cache/apt/archives/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb -> /tmp/foo bar
> baz/tvtime_0.9.12-2_i386.deb mizar:[/tmp]
>
> Can you show me a _transcript_ of it failing? It seems clear that your
> problem likely has nothing to do with either dpkg or spaces in the
> filename.
>
> > E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the mc package. This might mean you
> > need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)
>
> This error is from apt, not dpkg (dpkg is not invoked yet, and won't be
> because of this error).
Yah, it seems it doesn't actually mc has problems with quoting spaces if you
hit enter on a deb (probably all other files too) that got me mistaken.
So not that error but probably something else, here's a full transcript:
apt-get remove xchat
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xchat
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 286 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 557kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 69992 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xchat ...
ll /var/cache/apt/archives/xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 16 17:45 /var/cache/apt/
archives/xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb -> /data/cd/debian-2003-09-21//
xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb
ll /data/cd/debian-2003-09-21//xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 211 May 2 2003 /data/cd/
debian-2003-09-21//xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb
apt-get install xchat=2.0.2-1
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xchat
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 286 not upgraded.
E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the xchat package. This might mean you
need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)
apt-get install xchat=2.0.2-2
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Version '2.0.2-2' for 'xchat' was not found
So it must know that xchat 2.0.2-1 exists.
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package xchat.
(Reading database ... 69979 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xchat (from .../xchat_2.0.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up xchat (2.0.2-1) ...
Thanks for the fast response, and sorry for the misleading title.
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Martin Tsachev
http://martin.f2o.org
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