Package: netselect-apt Version: 0.3.ds1-10 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
I noticed after installing a new version of Debian Etch that netselect-apt fails with the message: netselect was unable to find a mirror, this probably means that you are behind a firewall and it is blocking traceroute. It seems the Perl code within run_netselect() fails to parse the HTML of the Debian worldwide mirror sites page at http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full because that page no longer contains \n\n delimiters. I resolved the problem by modifying run_netselect() to use "<br><br>" instead (highlighted): run_netselect() { SEARCH="$1" PROTO="$2" netselect -v -s 1 $(cat "$infile" \ | perl -n -e ' $/="<br><br>"; while(<>){ next if $_ !~ /Site:/; if( m@'"$SEARCH"':.*<a href="('"$PROTO"'://.*?)">@i ){ print("$1\n"); } }') \ | awk '{print $2}' } I also removed the check for Archive Architectures, since the phrase no longer appears on the page. Perhaps this is needed, however? I've attached a patch to this e-mail with the changes. I created it with the following commands: claude:~/tmp$ find old new old old/netselect-apt new new/netselect-apt claude:~/tmp$ diff -Naur old new > netselect-apt.patch Also, I noticed after patching netselect-apt that running netselect-apt occassionally fails due to negative values for netselect field host->num_out, but this is a bug for the netselect package, not netselect-apt . Please let me know if you have any comments, questions, or concerns. Sincerely, Kevin -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages netselect-apt depends on: ii netselect 0.3.ds1-10 Choose the fastest server automati ii wget 1.10.2-2 retrieves files from the web netselect-apt recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
