Control: tags -1 + pending
Hi Sven, 2016-03-02 20:39 Sven Joachim:
On 2016-03-02 20:00 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.7-1 Severity: important Like many people, I have a local repository in a flat directory, managed by apt-ftp-archive. The latest aptitude version triggers an internal apt error trying to install packages from this repository and also messes up the terminal, introducing a "staircase" effect (the error message itself comes from libapt-pkg, see apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc in the apt source): ,---- | $ LANG=C sudo aptitude reinstall linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau | The following packages will be REINSTALLED: | linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau | 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded. | Need to get 0 B/6490 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. | E: Internal Error, Pathname to install is not absolute 'linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau_4.5.0-rc6-1_i386.deb' | Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover: | | $ echo $? | 255 `---- Downgrading aptitude (and aptitude-common) to 0.7.6-1 fixes this.Bisection shows commit c447ba44b8c69b5fad7efada9da2832312ec8558 ("Only lock package cache dirs and call pkgAcquire->Run() when necessary (Closes: #766122)") as the one which introduced the problem.
Thanks for the report. Fixed now, marking as +pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
