| 2012-08-20 12:45:09 |
Colin Watson |
description |
We see quite a few messages like this from the publisher:
W: Malformed override /srv/launchpad.net/ubuntu-archive/ubuntu-overrides/override.quantal.extra.main line 14628 #2
These correspond to override lines that are too long. This example is:
libmng1/powerpc Task ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-active-desktop, kubuntu-active, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop-kde, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-master, ubuntustudio-generation, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-audio-plugins, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-recording
This carries over into truncated Task fields in Packages files.
Override::ReadOverride currently has "char Line[500]", which is the cause of this. Ideally, this code would handle arbitrary-length lines. However, in practice, the maximum line length we're seeing in quantal is 594, so simply doubling this to 1000 would do nicely for now. |
[Impact] The Launchpad publisher is producing malformed Task lines in Packages files, which has the potential to cause image builds to be incomplete.
[Test Case] Grab the extra-override input files from the primary archive and try to run apt-ftparchive using them (perhaps cut down to include just the longest lines). It should avoid emitting "Malformed override" messages and should produce non-truncated Task lines in Packages files.
[Regression Potential] Barring toolchain bugs, any regressions should be confined to apt-ftparchive. (But this change is very simple, so I'm not especially worried.)
We see quite a few messages like this from the publisher:
W: Malformed override /srv/launchpad.net/ubuntu-archive/ubuntu-overrides/override.quantal.extra.main line 14628 #2
These correspond to override lines that are too long. This example is:
libmng1/powerpc Task ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-active-desktop, kubuntu-active, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop-kde, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-master, ubuntustudio-generation, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-audio-plugins, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-recording
This carries over into truncated Task fields in Packages files.
Override::ReadOverride currently has "char Line[500]", which is the cause of this. Ideally, this code would handle arbitrary-length lines. However, in practice, the maximum line length we're seeing in quantal is 594, so simply doubling this to 1000 would do nicely for now. |
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