[OT] who maintains aptitude for rpm?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Wilfried Weissmann wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sorry for posting something offtopic but this is the best place I could 
> find to ask this question. Who maintains aptitude for rpm? The latest 
> verion that I could find is 0.3.3 from Mandriva, however there is no 
> project page.

I don't think there's such a thing as maintainer for aptitude on rpm, and 
I'm not too interested in becoming one :) What I can certainly do is 
collect relevant patches to apt-rpm.org so people have a chance of finding 
them.

> I am asking because I have two problems with aptitude. The first is that 
> the package description is parsed by aptitude and rendered in a way that 
> is only suitable for DEB packages. This parsing breaks the description 
> of RPMs which have "raw" text in the description field. I have attached 
> a patch that just disables the parsing and just copies the discription 
> line by line. The other issue is that if I uninstall a package that has 
> a %postun scriptlet then the script always fails without being executed 
> (!) and when aptitude returns to the main screen it crashes with 
> SIGSEGV.
>
> Committing changes...
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> error: %postun(blahlaber-1-0.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
> Press return to continue.
>
> Ouch!  Got SIGSEGV, dying..
> Segmentation fault
>
> If I remove the package with "apt-get remove blahlaber" (version apt-0.5.15lorg3.2) everything works fine. This looks to me like there is some memory corruption in the aptitude code.

What distribution (and version) are you using, and do you by any chance 
have SELinux enabled? Scriptlets failing in aptitude but working in apt 
*could* be explainable with SElinux context/type differences. The fact 
that aptitude crashes because of that is obviously a bug of some sorts - 
one possibility might be that it blindly assumes a package marked for 
removal actually getting removed no matter what (if scriptlets fail rpm's 
dont get removed!) and gets its bookkeeping wrong because of that (or 
something like that). But that's just wild wild speculation, haven't 
actually looked at aptitude code...

 	- Panu -