Re: dldr-wpa-supplicant_0.4.6.0_i386.deb seems to corrupts /var/lib/dpkg/status
"Linuxant support (Jonathan)" <[email protected]> Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:40:39 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel.driver-loader |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, thanks for reporting this problem. I will be fixed in a future release of the package if other users have the same problem with it. Regards, Jonathan Technical specialist / Linuxant www.linuxant.com [email protected] Duchesne Family wrote: > Folks, > > I just installed this Debian package on my Debian box: > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/archive/dldr-wpa-supplicant_0.4.6.0_i386.deb > > After doing so, I was unable to update my system anymore: running > 'apt-get update' or 'dselect, Update' would yield an error message > indicating that the file /var/lib/dpkg/status could not be parsed. > > I went ahead and binary searched the file to find the faulty package, > which turned out to be dldr-wpa-supplicant. Apparently, the parser does > not like the extraordinarily long 'Description:' field of the package. I > truncated the field to only keep its first 2 lines, and everything went > back to normal. >