On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:36:53 -0500 Joseph Rawson wrote: Hi Joseph, thanks for reporting this issue.
[...] > I got this error while upgrading to sid today: > > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/debian.rb:905:in `initialize': regular expression too big: > (a long list of packages, separated with "|", then) > > > (RegexpError) > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/debian.rb:905:in `new' > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/debian.rb:905:in `initialize' > from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:995:in `new' > from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:995:in `create' > from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:1375 > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error code > (10) > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 > A package failed to install. Trying to recover: By looking at the error message you received, it seems that the large number of packages to be upgraded caused an attempt to build too big a regular expression. How many packages were you trying to upgrade in one single step? I don't think that the Ruby Regexp class has some hard-coded limitation for the regular expression length. Can it be that it failed because it went out of available memory? What is the total capacity of the main memory on your system? By looking at the code, the line of code that causes the issue is basically /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:995 (in apt-listbugs/0.0.89) which is now moved to /usr/share/apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs/logic.rb:806 (in apt-listbugs/0.1.0 and in master branch on the git repository) but is unchanged, as the substance of the rest of the create() method. This means that upgrading to current apt-listbugs/0.1.0 won't probably help in solving the issue. However, the error is actually generated by /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/debian.rb:905 (in package libdpkg-ruby1.8/0.3.2). I think that, if there's a way to cope with this issue (maybe by splitting too long regular expressions into partial regular expressions based on shorter package sub-lists?), it should be implemented at the libdpkg-ruby1.8 level, rather than at the apt-listbugs level. I would like to hear from Ryan (the other co-maintainer of apt-listbugs): if Ryan agrees with this analysis, I think the bug should be re-assigned to libdpkg-ruby1.8 version 0.3.2 and fixed there. Ryan, what do you think? -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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