Re: [Synaptic-devel] add-cdrom bugs

[Michael Vogt]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:43:52PM +0100, Gabor Kelemen wrote:
> Hi!
Hi Gabor,

> I found some bugs in 0.48-test2:
> There seems to be a problem with the "add cdrom" menu of synaptic. I
> have added another cd, (the previous version of my favourite
> Linux, and another one, which contained some packages-only for testing)
> and it created entries, with "/" on the beginning! (the other part was
> ok) The command-line tool "apt-cdrom add" created good entries,
> (beginning with "deb") and the cdroms were good too, so this seems to be
> a bug of synaptic. 
> 
> After this cdrom-add action, i tried to close. Then the program said,
> that there are still changes in the queue, which will be lost, if i
> quit. But there was nothing in the queue! I only added the cdrom,
> nothing else. Then, as i clicked cancel, and choosed the queued changes
> filter to see, what is in the queue (but another filter does this too,
> and the refresh list, upgrade all buttons), the program got a segfault.

Thanks, we'll look into this one. 
 
> I added two cdroms to the repositories, then i tried to install one
> package from the first disc, and one from the second, while one of the
> discs were in the drive. After clicking execute, synaptic tried to
> install the package, (which was on the currently available disc,)  and
> has not finished its installation, but tried to install the package
> again and again and again... 
> Let's see the output:
> root:/home/gabor# synaptic
> Selecting previously deselected package jumpnbump.
> (Reading database ... 92572 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking jumpnbump (from .../jumpnbump_1.41-7.6_i386.uhu) ...
> (Reading database ... 92591 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace jumpnbump 1.41-7.6 (using
> .../jumpnbump_1.41-7.6_i386.uhu) ...
> Unpacking replacement jumpnbump ...
> (Reading database ... 92591 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking replacement jumpnbump ...

Thanks. We are working on this problem already. I can't say when we
mangaged to solve it though. 

BTW, what is a .uhu file :) ?


thanks,
 Michael

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