apt lorg3.1 segfaults on RH9, RH7.3 and EL2.1

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 16:17 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > Hi Panu,
> > 
> > With a repomd repository created with the createrepo -n option and a 
> > vanilla apt lorg3.1 on RH9, RH7.3 and EL2.1 I get segfaults when doing an 
> > apt-get update.
> 
> Found it, I thought apt was safe wrt createrepo -n but I must've tested
> with some other incarnation of the patch. This should fix the issue and
> safeguard against other similar cases as well:
> 
> svn diff -r 195:196 http://svn.laiskiainen.org/apt-rpm/trunk/

It works fine. I've completely switched to repomd for my own repositories. 
Metadata (-n where required) is available, now we need to convince 
freshrpms and fedora legacy to patch createrepo and run that :)

All distributions since EL2.1 can now run the same update tool with repomd !

PS The createrepo rpm (0.4.4-3) in my repository is also patched for the 
-u option to update a repository instead of rebuilding it. I guess we 
don't need that feature in genbasedir soon :)

Kind regards,
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