[Popcon-developers] Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso
Bill Allombert
Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr
Tue Apr 12 08:44:25 UTC 2011
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 08:05:56AM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.52
> Severity: important
>
> I get errors from cron because of popcon:
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> popcon: file /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2.list is missing
>
>
> That file doesn't exist, it's really /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2:i386.list
> due to the multiarch-enabled dpkg that I'm running.
>
> You should not access those files, the proper interface is dpkg-query -L <pkg>.
Hello Raphaël,
This is not possible: forking dpkg for all installed packages would be way to slow and
resource intensive. We need a better option.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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