On Thu, May 19, 2011 9:28:48 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> The best fix is likely to be one which invalidates the cache
> if this situation is encountered
Until the problem is fixed, users can remedy the situation by issuing,
as root, the command:
# apt-show-versions -i
It could be that they should also
# rm -rf /var/cache/apt-show-versions
before that. When properly working, that directory contains 3 files:
$ ls -R /var/cache/apt-show-versions/
/var/cache/apt-show-versions/:
apackages files ipackages
> I would also recommend switching to nstore which will prevent this
> happening again.
A simple substitution of store with nstore in the program text seem to work.
I have found only 4 occurrences:
--- apt-show-versions-0.17/apt-show-versions 2011-02-18 15:29:51.000000000
+0200
+++ apt-show-versions-0.17+local/apt-show-versions 2011-05-20
03:31:19.000000000 +0300
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
-use Storable qw(store retrieve);
+use Storable qw(nstore retrieve);
my $apackagescachefile="/var/cache/apt-show-versions/apackages";
my $ipackagescachefile="/var/cache/apt-show-versions/ipackages";
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
if (!-e $filescachefile or -M $list_dir < -M $filescachefile or
!ref($filesref)) {
opendir(DIR, $list_dir) or &die("Can't opendir $list_dir: $!\n");
@files = map { $list_dir . $_} grep /Packages$/, readdir(DIR);
- ($< == 0) and (store(\@files, $filescachefile) or
+ ($< == 0) and (nstore(\@files, $filescachefile) or
warn "Can't write $filescachefile\n");
closedir DIR ;
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
}
if (!-e $ipackagescachefile or -M $status_file < -M $ipackagescachefile or
!ref($ipackages)) {
($ipackages, undef) = parse_file ($status_file, 1);
- ($< == 0) and (store($ipackages, $ipackagescachefile) or
+ ($< == 0) and (nstore($ipackages, $ipackagescachefile) or
warn "Can't write $ipackagescachefile\n");
}
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
}
}
# Store if we are root
-($< == 0) and (store($apackages, $apackagescachefile) or
+($< == 0) and (nstore($apackages, $apackagescachefile) or
&die("Warning: Can't write to $apackagescachefile!\n"));
# Exit if we are root and using the -i option
($< == 0) and (exists $opts{'initialize'}) and exit;
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