Bug#316337: Proof

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw@home.nl> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> I don't get why you get a bzip2 error at all.
>>
>> The strace shows that apt fails to download Packages.bz2 files (which
>> don't exist) and then it fetches Packages.gz instead. So why is it
>> even trying to bunzip2 the file? It should fork the gunzip method
>> instead.
>>
>>
> Are we talking about the same strace report? The reports in traces/
> are the error-spewing ones and traces/traces2/ shows an apt-get update
> running fine but creating a bunch of empty partial files. The former
> series show that each error-spewing bzip2 process tries to read from
> stdin and gets EOF immediately. Upon further investigation stdin turns
> out to refer to an empty partial file. Also, I tried bunzip2'ing a .gz
> file, to which bunzip2 simply responded with "This is not a valid .bz2
> file", which is quite different from the weird and confusing errors
> you get when bunzip2'ing an empty file.

I think so, yes. Look at what apt does in those traces. It grabs both
.bz2 and .gz and still gives the bunzip2 error.

MfG
        Goswin