Raphael Manfredi wrote:
I wrote a little perl script to do the conversion. God bless you for
using a text file for the database and not some binary format:
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my @lines;
my $seen_arch = 0;
while () {
push (@lines, $_);
Hi!
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 08:04:58 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Would it be possible in the long term for dpkg to stop caring about
available altogether (leaving it to dselect)?
Yes, it's more or less the plan. We've just changed dpkg to not
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
2/ We can't invent the value to put in Architecture
It seems likely this has been covered before, but just in case: why
not put in the native architecture for already-installed, ancient
packages?
It could be Architecture: all instead of the
Hi,
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
The change is very old, not many users will be affected by this.
Guillem, what do you think? Should we silence the warning due to this?
I am not Guillem :) but I think the ideal thing would be a way for the
user to (perhaps explicitly) update the status db by
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
I am not Guillem :) but I think the ideal thing would be a way for the
user to (perhaps explicitly) update the status db by inserting an
architecture.
Why ?
1/ It concerns packages which have not been touched since 2004 or packages
which were
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.16.0.1
Severity: normal
Since the 1.16.0 update dpkg outputs a ton of new warning messages for each
run (multiple times for one apt-get dist-upgrade).
Example:
aurora:~# dpkg -l
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 301 package
Hello,
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:
aurora:~# dpkg -l
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 301
package 'libmimelib1':
missing architecture
[...]
These seem all to only affect packages long removed, but not purged.
Can you show us the entry in
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:
aurora:~# dpkg -l
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 301
package 'libmimelib1':
missing architecture
[...]
These seem all to only affect packages long
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