Bug#549333: libapt's AR File parsing gets confused by filenames terminated with /
Alex Bennee bugzi...@bennee.com writes: Package: apt Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Severity: normal libapt's AR File implementation gets confused by file names which are terminated with / (which is sysv feature allowing spaces in file names). The result is hand rolling a .deb file with ar generates packages which are installable with dpkg but not GDebi (as it uses libapt). FYI: You are using the wrong ar. :) The one in debian is not compatible with the deb format. It used to be that dpkg would not accept such debs either. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#549333: libapt's AR File parsing gets confused by filenames terminated with /
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:26:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Alex Bennee bugzi...@bennee.com writes: Package: apt Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Severity: normal libapt's AR File implementation gets confused by file names which are terminated with / (which is sysv feature allowing spaces in file names). The result is hand rolling a .deb file with ar generates packages which are installable with dpkg but not GDebi (as it uses libapt). FYI: You are using the wrong ar. :) The one in debian is not compatible with the deb format. It used to be that dpkg would not accept such debs either. It's probably not helped by our build machine being an ancient Red Hat 7.3. I've been struggling to find if there is a bsdar packaged for it (or a way of convincing GNU ar to output BSD style ar files). However if dpkg is happy to install such hand-built archives libapt should probably be a little more forgiving of such terminators? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#549333: libapt's AR File parsing gets confused by filenames terminated with /
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:05:29PM +0200, Alex Bennee wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Severity: normal libapt's AR File implementation gets confused by file names which are terminated with / (which is sysv feature allowing spaces in file names). The result is hand rolling a .deb file with ar generates packages which are installable with dpkg but not GDebi (as it uses libapt). It should work since 0.7.20: * apt-inst/contrib/arfile.cc: - support members ending with '/' as well (thanks to Michal Cihr, closes: #500988) I don't know why it does not work for you on apt 0.7.20.2, if you find the problem please tell us. After doing ar r archive.ar README, I can do in Python (using python-apt 0.7.92): import apt_inst ar = apt_inst.ArArchive(a.ar) ar.getnames() ['README'] As can be seen, the '/' is properly removed from the filename. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#549333: libapt's AR File parsing gets confused by filenames terminated with /
Package: apt Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Severity: normal libapt's AR File implementation gets confused by file names which are terminated with / (which is sysv feature allowing spaces in file names). The result is hand rolling a .deb file with ar generates packages which are installable with dpkg but not GDebi (as it uses libapt). http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-10/msg00063.html -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.4 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc62.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc none (no description available) ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager ii bzip2 1.0.5-1high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14Compression method of 7z format in pn python-aptnone (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
