[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg# cat scan_status.php
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$handle = @fopen("/var/lib/dpkg/status", "r");
if ($handle)
{
$sz=0;
$package='';
while (!feof($handle))
{
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
if (substr($buffer,0,7)=='Package')
{
echo "$sz\t$package\n";
$sz=strlen($buffer);
$package=$buffer;
}
else {$sz+=strlen($buffer);};
};
echo "$sz\t$package\n";
fclose($handle);
}
?>
then
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg# ./scan_status.php |sort -nr | less
my top entry was otrs at 37k bytes
chopping out a few hundred lines of conf files got apt running again
this is a bug in apt
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #276060
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276060
** Also affects: apt (upstream) via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276060
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/50766
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