Comment 13 for bug 16467
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| Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote Re: [MASTER] aptitude/apt-get segmentation fault on currupted cache | #13 |
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(Get the code!)
There is no bug anywhere. In the best case, this would be a feature request. And we have a feature in planning involving a footer on the cache and storing the cache size in the header. This way, we will know if the cache is too small or if the last 4 bytes are corrupt. We cannot check that the whole cache is correct, this is impossible. We could add a checksum, but we have tested it and it is much too slow (could be added as an apt-cache check option)
The new features may land in oneiric, but this is no promise. We have hundreds of bug reported against APT, and this thing is one of the least important ones I could imagine.