Ubuntu
apt-file package

Please check integrity of downloaded files

Bug #176753 reported by era
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt-file (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Daniel Hahler

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apt-file

I installed apt-file yesterday, and would have expected it to work by today (the computer has been running for all this time). However, it doesn't, mostly.

vnix$ time apt-file search nosuchfile

gzip: /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-updates_Contents-i386.gz: not in gzip format

gzip: /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-updates_Contents-i386.gz: not in gzip format

gzip: /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-updates_Contents-i386.gz: not in gzip format

gzip: /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-backports_Contents-i386.gz: not in gzip format

gzip: /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-proposed_Contents-i386.gz: not in gzip format

real 0m21.708s
user 0m19.381s
sys 0m0.696s

vnix$ uptime
 21:43:01 up 2 days, 19:24, 5 users, load average: 1.23, 0.74, 0.38

In other words, the system is not under extremely heavy load or anything, and the operation takes forever. Running "sudo apt-file update" didn't clear this up, either.

However, this does appear to be just a transient problem:

vnix$ ls -l /var/cache/apt/apt-file
total 13608
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6170 2006-04-07 16:04 fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-backports_Contents-i386.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13888467 2007-10-17 06:11 fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_Contents-i386.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6170 2006-04-07 16:04 fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-proposed_Contents-i386.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6170 2006-04-07 16:04 fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-updates_Contents-i386.gz

vnix$ file /var/cache/apt/apt-file/*
/var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-backports_Contents-i386.gz: HTML document text
/var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_Contents-i386.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression
/var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-proposed_Contents-i386.gz: HTML document text
/var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-updates_Contents-i386.gz: HTML document text

vnix$ head /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-proposed_Contents-i386.gz
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title> 404 File was not found in NIC </title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">

<center>
<!-- <img src="http://www.funet.fi/funet/ftp/hamster-transparent-logo.gif">-->

It would be nice, though, if apt-file could check that the downloaded files are in the expected format before committing them.

Revision history for this message
era (era) wrote :

See also bug #176754 for the problem with the Funet mirror.

Daniel Hahler (blueyed)
Changed in apt-file:
assignee: nobody → blueyed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
era (era) wrote :

Actually, as pointed out in that bug report, the real problem is that gutsy-proposed etc are lacking these Changes-ARCH.gz files; the mirror is set up correctly. I guess this falls under the umbrella of bug 179420 -- at least partly.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt-file - 2.0.8.2ubuntu3

---------------
apt-file (2.0.8.2ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low

  * Improved "need to run apt-file update" experience (LP: #154180)
    - debian/apt-file.postinst:
      - Do not call apt-file update anymore directly
      - install update-notifier hook
    - debian/control: Depend on "menu" for su-to-root
    - apt-file: test if the cache directory is empty for actions
      search/find and show/list.
  * apt-file: reverted removal of leading slash in pattern and implement
    logic to match both without slash at the beginning and with slash
    inside (LP: #181600). Apply the same logic to regexp patterns (-x).
  * debian/rules:
    - moved DH_COMPAT=3 to debian/compat (increased to 5)
    - Fixed debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error
    - Dropped binary-arch target
  * Fix typos/wording in README
  * apt-file.conf: Add integrity check for fetched files (LP: #176753)
  * apt-file: find_command: remove leading spaces and open parentheses
    before looking for the command, so that the new defaults in
    apt-file.conf work
  * apt-file: print output from command after executing it, so that
    errors and notes from there get to the user
  * debian/apt-file.postrm: added DEBHELPER marker
  * debian/control:
    - Dropped Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)
    - Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), cdbs
    - Standards-Version: 3.7.3
    - Recommend "file", which gets used optionally for the integrity check
  * apt-file.bash_completion: filename/directory completion for "search",
    patch taken from Debian bug #448358
  * apt-file/do_grep: only search in all cache files once (LP: #174134)
  * apt-file: fix display of warning in purge_cache, if the file cannot be
    deleted
  * Applied patches from Kevin Glynn in a lot of places, see Debian bug
    #382312). Thanks!
  * Support files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ (LP: #190602) (Closes: #353275)
    Patches from Amos Shapira and Andrew Schulman.

 -- Daniel Hahler <email address hidden> Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:18:52 +0100

Changed in apt-file:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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