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

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon May 29 13:44:16 PDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 20:04 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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/
> 
> I just finished uploading all my metadata... :)
> Ok, will patch my apt package.
> 
> Can we expect a new release soon with all this and more ?

Define "soon" :) 

At the current rate of changes we'll have easily a release worth of new
stuff in a month or so, but I haven't decided on any particular schedule
for the next release.

	- Panu -




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