Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.6.44.2
Severity: serious
Tags: help
(Backported) apt-ftparchive on ftp-master currently fails to generate
Contents files. I've reproduced this locally on sid with vanilla
apt-utils and a trivial apt.conf file.
| Done Packages, Starting contents.
| unstable/Contents-i386:
| E: Sub-process decompressor exited unexpectedly
| E: Error processing contents unstable/Contents-i386
| Done. 588MB in 335 archives. Took 1m49s
Michael's looked into this today but was unable to find the problem
and unfortunately he's now away for a while. (Thus the 'help' tag)
strace shows that one of the gzip -d processes is throwing SIGPIPE but
nothing else particularly useful. I've put one up at
http://people.debian.org/~troup/misc/strace.txt anyway.
Interestingly while trying to reproduce this I discovered that if I
limited the number of debs I was feeding apt-ftparchive, I could make
the problem go away. 63 or less files worked, >= 64 doesn't.
I've attached the local apt.conf too (but it's obviously not useful
unmodified).
--
James
Dir
{
ArchiveDir "/home/james/scratch/apt/";
OverrideDir "/home/james/scratch/apt/";
CacheDir "/home/james/scratch/apt/";
};
Default
{
Packages::Compress "gzip";
Contents::Compress "gzip";
}
tree "unstable"
{
FileList "/home/james/scratch/apt/filelist";
Sections "main";
Architectures "i386";
BinOverride "override";
};
