‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, May 25, 2020 11:32 AM, David Kalnischkies <da...@kalnischkies.de> wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 07:08:28AM +0000, meht...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > #2 main (argv=<optimized out>) at ./methods/https.cc:546 > > Binary = "https.bin+https" > > I am curious, what is this "https.bin" file? Or rather, what is with > "https"… > > You see, the method we ship(ped) in apt-transport-https should be in > `/usr/lib/apt/methods/https`. We do not and never did ship a > `/usr/lib/apt/methods/https.bin` (which is the file the core was > produced for now that I look again & why this variable has this > seemingly weird content). > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/apt/methods/https* > $ file /usr/lib/apt/methods/https* > > Looks for me like you have some script (or at least a symlink) in > `/usr/lib/apt/methods/https` which invokes `https.bin`. While trying to get the core file I renamed "https" to "https.bin" and created a shell script "https" which had "ulimit -c unlimited; /path/https.bin $@" or something like that.. Sorry if that caused confusion. m.