[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816537: aptitude: Internal Error installing package from local repository

[Sven Joachim]

On 2016-03-02 20:00 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.7.7-1
> Severity: important
>
> Like many people, I have a local repository in a flat directory, managed
> by apt-ftp-archive.  The latest aptitude version triggers an internal
> apt error trying to install packages from this repository and also
> messes up the terminal, introducing a "staircase" effect (the error
> message itself comes from libapt-pkg, see apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc in the
> apt source):
>
> ,----
> | $ LANG=C sudo aptitude reinstall linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau
> | The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
> |   linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau 
> | 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
> | Need to get 0 B/6490 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
> | E: Internal Error, Pathname to install is not absolute 'linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau_4.5.0-rc6-1_i386.deb'
> |                                                                                                            Failed to perform requested operation on package.  Trying to recover:
> |                                          
> | $ echo $?
> | 255
> `----
>
> Downgrading aptitude (and aptitude-common) to 0.7.6-1 fixes this.

Bisection shows commit c447ba44b8c69b5fad7efada9da2832312ec8558
("Only lock package cache dirs and call pkgAcquire->Run() when necessary
(Closes: #766122)") as the one which introduced the problem.

Cheers,
       Sven