Bug#234685: marked as done (Lots of error fallout from nonexistent Dir::Cache::Archives + "/partial" dir)
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Subject: apt: Confusing message when Dir::Cache::Archives dir missing
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
The error message I get when I point Apt::Cache to a nonexistent
directory is not very helpful.
In order to create a test case which is easy to repro without messing
up your configuration, I use /tmp for Dir::State and create /tmp/lists
and /tmp/lists/partial. (You'll notice that you get a sensible error
for a missing .../partial both in the case of .../lists/partial and
.../archives/partial.)
$ mkdir -p /tmp/lists/partial
$ apt-get -oDir::State="/tmp" -oDir::Cache::Archives="/no/such/dir" update
E: Archive directory /no/such/dir/partial is missing.
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The error message is uninformative to anyone who is not familiar with
the internal workings of apt-get. The large number of repeated
messages is a bug in and of itself, anyway, and also actually drowned
out the more-meaningful message about a missing .../partial directory
-- if I had actually spotted that I would probably not have spent on
the order of half an hour in Google to try to figure out what the
dequeue error means. I really didn't notice the message about a
missing directory until now.
Tangentially, it would probably be useful if Apt could create any
missing directories, say, if the immediate parent of a missing
directory already exists. After all, these directories are probably
only going to be used by Apt anyway.
As you can probably tell, I'm running Woody here. I went over the BTS
and the Debian changelog of the newest unstable version of Apt just to
make sure this wasn't obviously fixed in a recent version. I'm afraid
I don't have the time to set up a sandbox just in order to check. It
would probably be useful if somebody who is already running the latest
experimental release of Apt could try to repro this and follow up.
/* era */
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux there.afraid.org 2.2.20 #1 SMP Thu Nov 7 16:15:53 EET 2002 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-11woody The GNU stdc++ library
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Source: apt
Source-Version: 0.5.24
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
apt, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
apt-doc_0.5.24_all.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/apt-doc_0.5.24_all.deb
apt-utils_0.5.24_i386.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/apt-utils_0.5.24_i386.deb
apt_0.5.24.dsc
to pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.24.dsc
apt_0.5.24.tar.gz
to pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.24.tar.gz
apt_0.5.24_i386.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.24_i386.deb
libapt-pkg-dev_0.5.24_i386.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/libapt-pkg-dev_0.5.24_i386.deb
libapt-pkg-doc_0.5.24_all.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/libapt-pkg-doc_0.5.24_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 234685@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:47:55 -0800
Source: apt
Binary: apt-utils libapt-pkg-doc libapt-pkg-dev apt-doc apt
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 0.5.24
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
Description:
apt - Advanced front-end for dpkg
apt-doc - Documentation for APT
apt-utils - APT utility programs
libapt-pkg-dev - Development files for APT's libapt-pkg and libapt-inst
libapt-pkg-doc - Documentation for APT development
Closes: 174945 234685 235822 236688 237403 237771 237806 237863 237892 237960 238333
Changes:
apt (0.5.24) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Updated Czech translation from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
(Closes: #235822)
* Updated French translation from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
(Closes: #237403)
* Updates to XML man pages from richard.bos@xs4all.nl
* Updated Danish translation from Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk>
(Closes: #237771)
* Updated Greek translation from Konstantinos Margaritis
<markos@debian.org>
(Closes: #237806)
* Updated Spanish translation from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
(Closes: #237863)
* Updated pt_BR translation from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org>
(Closes: #237960)
* Regenerate .pot file (Closes: #237892)
* Updated Polish translation from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
(Closes: #238333)
* In pkgAcquire::Shutdown(), set the status of fetching items to
StatError to avoid a sometimes large batch of error messages
(Closes: #234685)
* Implement an ugly workaround for the 10000-character limit on the
Binaries field in debSrcRecordParser, until such time as some things
can be converted over to use STL data types (ABI change) (Closes: #236688)
* Increase default tagfile buffer from 32k to 128k; this arbitrary limit
should also be removed someday (Closes: #174945)
* Checked against Standards-Version 3.6.1 (no changes)
Files:
b857db17be95febb0961cae83a43a4a1 754 admin important apt_0.5.24.dsc
06f385f2317b633fd454b17a63290c1a 2274944 admin important apt_0.5.24.tar.gz
5437e5beb788c79afd8de55f0a80009b 67124 doc optional apt-doc_0.5.24_all.deb
048c739e3010d9c1645ac8fbfbd87bab 95938 doc optional libapt-pkg-doc_0.5.24_all.deb
18e9a0d1b8528b39fa6c4f4353165cff 920544 base important apt_0.5.24_i386.deb
c7f761f12af46229f51b92c5a518c956 66474 libdevel optional libapt-pkg-dev_0.5.24_i386.deb
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