Re: Fatal problems with dpkg<->dpkg-deb communication in 1.8.1

2001-01-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > When I installed dpkg 1.8.1 at work a few hours ago I couldn't install > any packages with it; while unpacking, it got EAGAIN when trying to read > from its pipe to dpkg-deb, and then segfaulted. This was in > lib/mlib.c:buffer_read() and lib/mlib.c:buffer

Fatal problems with dpkg<->dpkg-deb communication in 1.8.1

2001-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
When I installed dpkg 1.8.1 at work a few hours ago I couldn't install any packages with it; while unpacking, it got EAGAIN when trying to read from its pipe to dpkg-deb, and then segfaulted. This was in lib/mlib.c:buffer_read() and lib/mlib.c:buffer_copy() at least, which at the moment tolerate EI