Package: netselect-apt
Version: 0.3.ds1-25
Followup-For: Bug #750952
Dear Maintainer,
Please find attached a patch that should close this bug. While I was
at it, I fixed #713838 as well.
The problem is actually a bug in the netselect package (I'll file
another bug report for that). However, a simple workaround is to
ignore obviously corrupted results by throwing out any host with
a negative score.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages netselect-apt depends on:
ii netselect 0.3.ds1-25
ii wget 1.15-1+b1
Versions of packages netselect-apt recommends:
ii curl 7.37.0-1+b1
Versions of packages netselect-apt suggests:
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.10
-- no debconf information
--- /usr/bin/netselect-apt 2012-05-06 14:22:22.000000000 -0700
+++ /root/netselect-apt 2014-07-18 16:59:15.435949993 -0700
@@ -191,6 +191,16 @@
[ -n "$DEBUG" ] && log "DEBUG: Running netselect: 'netselect $netselect_options $hosts'"
out=`netselect $netselect_options $hosts`
rv=$?
+ # Throw away hosts with negative scores to workaround a netselect bug.
+ # (netselect 0.3.ds1-25 seems to have problems pinging round-robin DNS)
+ corruptedhosts=$(echo "$out" | egrep '^ *-')
+ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+ log "Detected corrupt scores from bug in netselect: $corruptedhosts"
+ out=$(echo "$out" | sed -e '/^-/d')
+ fi
+
+
+ # Remove the score number leaving just the host.
echo $out | sed -e 's/[0-9]\+\s\+/ /g'
return $rv
}
@@ -244,7 +254,7 @@
{
log "Usage: netselect-apt [OPTIONS] [ debian_release ]"
log " debian_release is one of stable, testing, unstable, experimental"
- log " or a codename etch, lenny, squeeze, sid"
+ log " or a codename etch, lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie, sid"
log "Options:"
log " -a, --arch ARCH Use mirrors containing arch ($arch)"
log " -s, --sources Include deb-src lines in generated file (no)"
@@ -310,7 +320,7 @@
# distro is a non-option for backward compatibility
case "$1" in
# don't forget to update the usage with new codenames
- stable|testing|unstable|experimental|etch|lenny|squeeze|wheezy|sid) distro="$1" ;;
+ stable|testing|unstable|experimental|etch|lenny|squeeze|wheezy|jessie|sid) distro="$1" ;;
'') ;;
*) log "Invalid distribution: $1"; exit 1 ;;
esac
