Ubuntu
ppa-purge package

Fails to deal with compressed indexes

Bug #677961 reported by Hernando Torque
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This bug affects 10 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ppa-purge
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned
ppa-purge (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ppa-purge

Since version 0.8.8ubuntu3 apt works with compressed indexes, so those '/var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages' files now are '/var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages.gz' and ppa-purge fails with:

"Warning: Could not find package list for PPA: ..."

See original description
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plun (plun) wrote :

Yup, confirmed ... one more example

plun@plun-laptop:~$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-desktop/gnome3-builds
Updating packages lists
PPA to be removed: ubuntu-desktop gnome3-builds
Warning: Could not find package list for PPA: ubuntu-desktop gnome3-builds

Robert Hooker (sarvatt)
Changed in ppa-purge (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)
Changed in ppa-purge (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in ppa-purge:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Anduu (anduu)
description: updated
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Robert Hooker (sarvatt) wrote :

Apt moved back to uncompressed indicies, changing this to wishlist for now.

apt (0.8.9ubuntu4) natty; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * cmdline/apt-key:
    - set timeout of wget for net-update to 90 seconds (thanks to \sh)

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Revert r1819 and r1820 to disable compressed indexes by default again.
    Testing has brought up a few places where this seriously degrades
    performance, mostly in applications which iterate through all available
    package records, like update-apt-xapian-index or synaptic. See
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=apt-compressed-indexes

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:50:37 +0100
Changed-By: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>

Changed in ppa-purge (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Wishlist
Changed in ppa-purge:
importance: Medium → Wishlist
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Popov Kapov (popovk) wrote :

I'm using Acquire::GzipIndexes "true" for apt since multiple years, didn't encounter any trouble until recently with ppa-purge.

While I can understand the trouble for something that might not be really common, it would be helpful to at least have an explicit warning or abort in ppa-purge when indexes are compressed.

Thanks

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