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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi Sven,

2016-03-02 20:39 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.

Thanks for the report.  Fixed now, marking as +pending.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>