Bug#754904: "apt-get install /dev/null" segfaults
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 09:26:31PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.1~exp2
> Severity: minor
Thanks for your bugreport.
> # apt-get install -qq /dev/null
> Segmentation fault
>
> It would be nice if apt could print a helpful error message instead
> of segfaulting. For example, this is what dpkg says:
>
> # dpkg -i /dev/null
> dpkg-deb: error: `/dev/null' is not a debian format archive
> dpkg: error processing archive /dev/null (--install):
> subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /dev/null
This is fixed in git now.
Cheers,
Michael
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: amd64
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages apt depends on:
> ii debian-archive-keyring 2012.4
> ii gnupg 1.4.18-2
> ii libapt-pkg4.13 1.1~exp2
> ii libc6 2.19-7
> ii libgcc1 1:4.9.0-10
> ii libstdc++6 4.9.0-10
>
> --
> Jakub Wilk
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