Bug#377931: apt-get update no longer downloads Packages.bz2

["Adrian Yee" <adrian@gossamer-threads.com>]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:44:54 +0200
Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 03:57:15PM -0700, Adrian Yee wrote:
> >> Package: apt
> >> Version: 0.6.44.2
> >> Severity: important
> >
> > Thanks for your bugreport.
> >  
> >> The bzip2 1.0.3-3 package removes the /usr/bin/bzip2 symlink (bug
> >> #375285) and apt-get only checks for /usr/bin/bzip2 (not /bin/bzip2)
> >> before it downloads Packages.bz2.  As a result, repositories such as the
> >> vdlinux one fail to update since a Packages.gz does not exist.
> > [..]
> >
> > I changed this to /bin/bzip2 now, that should fix the issue. It is in
> > bzr now and will be part of the next upload.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  Michael
> 
> Won't that break with older bzip2 that aren't in /bin? Can't you check
> if it is in PATH instead?
> 
> MfG
>         Goswin

No, I believe all versions of bzip2 installed the actual binary into /bin, but
created a symlink in /usr/bin.  Of course it would probably be best it checked
PATH (unless there's another reason for not doing that).

Adrian