[OT] who maintains aptitude for rpm? (fwd)

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Wilfried Weissmann wrote:

> Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> 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...
>
> I have set the same type as defined in /usr/bin/apt-get and started aptitude 
> from the console (no "su -"). Now the %postun scripts are executed, but 
> aptitude still crashes. However the package was removed fine.
> So SE Linux makes a difference, but we still do not know if the sigsegv is SE 
> Linux related.

Ok, I'd guess the actual crash is simply Something Else then. I've only 
briefly tried aptitude in recent times, the version I used was this:
http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/aptitude-0.3.3-1.src.rpm

I didn't see any crashes with that when removing a couple of packages but 
then it just might be luck or whatever - can you check if there are any 
patches not present in your package and whether they make any difference?

I hope starting from next week I'll have a bit more time to dedicate to 
apt-stuff again so I could try to have a look at this in more detail then.

 	- Panu -