[patch] off_t

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon Jul 31 11:02:27 PDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:16 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 23:36 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Another (not so harmless) off_t-patch, furthermore gradually approaching
> > > the dark sides of libapt's internals.
> > >
> > > Remark: This patch is the result of eliminating a couple of dubious
> > > typecasts in apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc, and back-tracking them into other
> > > files.
> > 
> > Hmm, did you notice something breaking with this patch
> Nope ...
> 
> >  or is the "not so 
> > harmless" just a warning for breakage potential? :)
> Yes, ... apt and rpm are sooo broken when it comes to type sizes, you
> never can be sure. As this patch touches one of the central spots of
> apt's brokenness, it is carries a non-zero probability to break
> something.

Ok... oh and as you've probably noticed, I've long since applied the
patch in question, just forgot to say so :)

	- Panu -




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