Bug#463260: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive caches hashes too aggressively?
My apt repository suffers from this bug too. It is very annoying to manually
blow away the cache db's and have them rebuild after an upload overwrites
and existing file.
I took a look at ftparchive/cachedb.cc in apt 0.5.28.6 (the sarge version
that is purported to work correctly), 0.5.4 (an intermediate version between
sarge and etch) and 0.6.46.4 (the current etch version). Without having any
particular C skills, it is not apparent to me why the overwritten
packages files are not having their sizes/timestamps recached.
using "db4.4_dump -p whatever.db", I am able to see the plaintext
package control data in the berkely db. According to cachedb.cc, the :st
keys contain the filesize and timestamps. They are not human readable
however and I can't get apt-ftparchive to give verbose output on
manual invocation so I cannot debug further.
joey
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