[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 -- Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) https://launchpad.net/bugs/50766 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs