Package: cruft Version: 0.9.6-0.4 When cruft is run on a Debian Sarge system with ~4000 packages installed it generates the following error:
./dpkg: line 3: /usr/bin/sort: Argument list too long and then reports an extremely large amount of cruft. The problem appears to be in the /usr/lib/cruft/explain/dpkg script The line: sort /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list will fail for a sufficiently large number of installed packages due to the unix ARG_MAX limit. The standard workaround to bypass this limit is to use find and xargs instead. The output of sort from *.list also has a large number of duplicates such as ./ and /etc and so forth, so adding a uniq might not be a bad idea either. The following script could be used instead that is not subject to this limit #!/bin/sh find /var/lib/dpkg/info -name '*.list' -print0 | xargs -0 cat | sort | uniq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
