Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: apt-move
I'm working on building a pooled package repository with apt-move for my
own use. This has turned out to be surprisingly undocumented. I'm making
a lot of progress and have apt-move working for me and not against me,
have figured out how to make Contents files for copies of Ubuntu install
disc pooled repos, et cetera. But now I have discovered that apt-move
chokes when you have packages with spaces in the names. This appears to
be a common problem with xargs (which it appears is how the problem ends
up here.) If the input is changed such that newlines become NULs and we
use the -0 option to xargs (null terminated) then it seems that the
problem should go away. But I'm no expert :)
Here's some sample output:
~$ sudo apt-move update
[sudo] password for drink:
Updating from local Packages files...
Moving files...
md5sum: /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz_1:0.6.2: No such file or
directory
md5sum: git20071119-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_all.deb: No such file or directory
md5sum: /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-core_1:0.6.2: No such file or
directory
md5sum: git20071119-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_i386.deb: No such file or directory
md5sum: /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-gnome_1:0.6.2: No such file or
directory
md5sum: git20071119-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_i386.deb: No such file or directory
md5sum: /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-plugins_1:0.6.2: No such file or
directory
md5sum: git20071119-0ubuntu1~gutsy1_i386.deb: No such file or directory
md5sum: /var/cache/apt/archives/ffmpeg_3:0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu4: No such
file or directory
md5sum: medibuntu3_i386.deb: No such file or directory
It goes on for a while before printing the names of packages which are being
successfully added to the repo. (I have delete disabled at this stage.)
I tried changing the md5sum run by xargs to options -0r, and added "tr
'\n' '\0' |" before xargs. This got me to a new error:
~$ sudo ./apt-move update
Updating from local Packages files...
Moving files...
dpkg-deb: failed to read archive
`/var/cache/apt/archives/compiz_1:0.6.2': No such file or directory
dpkg-deb returned nothing on /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz_1:0.6.2
dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `/var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-
core_1:0.6.2': No such file or directory
dpkg-deb returned nothing on /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-core_1:0.6.2
dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `/var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-
gnome_1:0.6.2': No such file or directory
dpkg-deb returned nothing on /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-
gnome_1:0.6.2
I went ahead and ran the script -x and it proceeded to run off into the
lands of awk and perl where I dare not and choose not to go,
respectively. But hopefully this information is helpful.
** Affects: apt-move (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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apt-move cannot copy/move packages whose filenames contain spaces
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214043
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