[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#606278: Bug#606278: Bug#606278: aptitude resolver is completely broken in 0.60.6

[Modestas Vainius]

Hello,

On ketvirtadienis 09 Gruodis 2010 00:06:52 Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On trečiadienis 08 Gruodis 2010 22:37:56 Roger Leigh wrote:
> > > Certainly for the apt and aptitude resolvers; for the internal
> > > resolver, it's still useful.
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to request an update of specific archive components,
> > > so that we don't need to do a complete fetch of everything?  If we
> > > could update the local archive only, that would be ideal.
> > 
> > Maybe cp'ing Packages file to /var/lib/apt/lists/ with the right (or
> > maybe random) filename would be enough? I need to try :)
> 
> I think they need encoding in a specific manner.  See URItoFileName
> and QuoteString in apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc (source apt).  But I
> may be wrong, and this might be optional.

But /var/lib/apt/lists/file <=> sources.list entry mapping needs to be done 
somehow. So probably filename is important...

> I've uploaded a new version of sbuild which fixes the main problem
> in this report.

Ok. You haven't pushed the tag to git yet though.

> I will certainly try to eliminate the unnecessary
> updates though.  Ideally, apt-get update would allow updating of
> specific components, rather than "everything", but I haven't found
> any way to do this directly unfortunately.
> 
> I can implement the URItoFileName function directly in Perl, or find
> some way to access the function directly from Perl.  If you could
> check if we can get away without these special filenames, that
> would be very helpful!

I have a couple of ideas which I will probably try tonight. I will let you 
know.

-- 
Modestas Vainius <modax at debian.org>
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