On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 06:56:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Package: apt-show-versions
> Version: 0.17
> Severity: important
>
> Hi.
>
> On my system, apt-show-versions started complaining with the message:
>
> Error: No information about packages! (Maybe no deb entries?)
>
> Of course, I do have deb entries in my system. Reading the source code, I
> saw that there was this snippet of code:
>
> ,----
> | @files = map { $list_dir . $_} grep /Packages$/, readdir(DIR);
> `----
>
> right there in the initialization of the cache. Since my system only has
> gzipped files as shown by "ls /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages*",
> apt-show-versions goes on to say that it found no informations about the
> packages, but the files are there, only gzipped (that is, ending with
> Packages.gz extension, instead of only Packages).
>
> If you need any further information, please let me know.
Please fix that and use apt-get indextargets 'Created-By: Packages'
combined with /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper cat-file to read the file - I
added the appropriate apt-internals usertag for de...@lists.debian.org
in a separate messages. I expect to turn compressed indexes on by default
this release cycle, this bug will become release-critical at that point.
Users might want to use apt list instead which basically provides a
similar output with colors. I'd also be happy to take over apt-show-versions
and replace it with the fully compatible C++ version I developed 4 years
ago (it's much faster and does not need a cache, it only needs access
to the apt cache, output wise it's the same as 0.21 AFAICT), and move it
into the apt team.
Thanks.
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