[gutsy] apt-get update deletes local Packages.gz file

[Jan Mynarik]

Binary package hint: apt

I have a local directory with my own or downloaded deb packages and I generate Packages.gz in this directory using this command:
apt-ftparchive packages . | gzip -9c > Packages.gz

I use this local packages archive with this line in sources.list:
deb file:///usr/local/archives/ / #Local DEB archive

When I run apt-get update and then again, it deletes the Packages.gz file.

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

Forgot to mention apt version, currently it is 0.7.6ubuntu3 but this bug was present in previous version or two.

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

I've just updated to 0.7.6ubuntu4 and it still happens.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I can confirm this behaviour on my system (gutsy).
I had no problem of this kind with version 0.6.46

[David Burgess (apt-get)]

I can't recreate this in Edubuntu 7.04 amd64. I followed your steps and after running apt-get update five times the Packages.gz file is still there.

db

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Yes, on Feisty (apt version 0.6.46.4ubuntu10) there is no such problem.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This is fixed in my local repository and will be part of the next upload. It only affects gutsy.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

Still not fixed with apt 0.7.6ubuntu7.

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

Problem persists even with apt 0.7.6ubuntu8.

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

Still in apt 0.7.6ubuntu9. Please mark as critical!

[Björn Torkelsson (torkel)]

And still in 0.7.6ubuntu10 :-(

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

0.7.6ubuntu11 affected as well

[Aaron Haviland (aaron-haviland)]

This bug only seems to affect compressed Packages.gz files. If I leave it uncompressed, apt doesn't unlink it.

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

@Aaron: You're right! Thanks for workaround!

[Björn Torkelsson (torkel)]

Still not fixed in 0.7.6ubuntu12.

[Aaron Haviland (aaron-haviland)]

This patch seems to fix the behaviour, at least as far as a local Packages/Packages.gz file goes. I have no idea if it impacts other behaviours (none that I could tell).

From what I could tell, the bug only appears on a local *compressed* Packages, and only when IMSHit=true (and it doesn't have to decompress it). A little bit of sleuthing led me here.

Happy hacking!

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

apt (0.7.6ubuntu13) gutsy; urgency=low

  * apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc:
    - fix crash in WriteApportReport (LP: #144537)
  * apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc
    - fix disappearing local Packages.gz file (LP: #131166)
  * methods/https.cc:
    - fix off-by-one error I-M-S handling
    - cleanup after I-M-S hit

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:48:26 +0200