On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 09:45:31PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> I am comfortable with Perl, and having taken another look at the code, was
> able to resolve the deadlock by arranging to feed xargs from a dedicated
> subprocess, per the attached patch.
>
> Could you please consider applying it?
TBH, it's been 6 years since I wrote that script and I can't remember why I
thought it was even necessary to run "apt-cache show". apt-cache doesn't have
access to any relevant data that grep-dctrl doesn't have. It's quite possible
(very likely) that I was pre-emptively trying to handle a situation that could
never happen.
Can you test something for me?
Delete all the code from the "# as a last resort..." comment to the end of the
"if (@unknown) {...}" loop, and verify that it produces the same output on
your system (or, at least, that any differences are either insignificant or an
improvement)
It does on my system, but I don't have 20000 unknown virtual packages. The
only difference on my system was that the script now outputs the correct
version number for the transitional libsane:i386 package (the version being
output previously was just ":i386" rather than "1.0.32-4:i386")
I have dlocate 1.10 almost ready to upload but just want to verify that it
will work properly in a context I'm unable to test myself.
craig
