Cannot upload deb file to feed

smccormack

I am trying to upload the current check_mk agent deb file (check-mk-agent_2.0.0p3-1_all.deb) to the feed I created using the webinterface. This produces the following error:

this is the full text of the error message:

System.IO.InvalidDataException: archive is corrupt or not a debian package
   at Inedo.ProGet.Feeds.Debian.ArReader.ReadAsync(Stream stream) in C:\Users\builds\AppData\Local\Temp\InedoAgent\BuildMaster\192.168.44.60\Temp\_E130753\Src\ProGetCoreEx\Feeds\Debian\ArReader.cs:line 38
   at Inedo.ProGet.Feeds.Debian.DebianPackage.FromStreamAsync(String component, Stream packageStream) in C:\Users\builds\AppData\Local\Temp\InedoAgent\BuildMaster\192.168.44.60\Temp\_E130753\Src\ProGetCoreEx\Feeds\Debian\DebianPackage.cs:line 41
   at Inedo.ProGet.Feeds.Debian.DebianFeed.InstallPackageInternalAsync(String component, Stream packageStream, InstallPackageOptions options, Boolean promoted) in C:\Users\builds\AppData\Local\Temp\InedoAgent\BuildMaster\192.168.44.60\Temp\_E130753\Src\ProGetCoreEx\Feeds\Debian\DebianFeed.cs:line 300
   at Inedo.ProGet.WebApplication.Pages.Debian.Packages.UploadDebianPackagePage.<>c__DisplayClass7_0.<<CreateChildControls>b__0>d.MoveNext() in C:\Users\builds\AppData\Local\Temp\InedoAgent\BuildMaster\192.168.44.60\Temp\_E130753\Src\ProGet.WebApplication\Pages\Debian\Packages\UploadDebianPackagePage.cs:line 66

I can install this deb file without any problems using apt install /tmp/check-mk-agent_2.0.0p3-1_all.deb Uploading other deb files works

atripp

Hello; can you share this file to us?

Feel free to email it to support at inedo dot com, but please add [QA-586] to the subject, so we can track this internally.

atripp

Hello just confirming we received it! We can now begin the investigation of the problem from here.

gdivis

Hi,

It looks like that file isn't a valid debian package file. According to the .deb file specifications, a file named debian-binary should be the first item, but instead, there's one named debian-binary/. You can see this by opening the file with a text editor:

Do you know what was used to generate the package?

smccormack

Hi,

thanks for the information. I do not know how it was created as it comes as part of the opensource monitoring project checkmk. With your information I was able to repack it using the following commands

fakeroot sh -c '
mkdir tmp
dpkg-deb -R file.deb tmp
dpkg-deb -b tmp file-new.deb
'

Afterwards I was able to upload it.

Nevertheless you might want to consider allowing trailing slashes in a future release as the link you provided states they are allowed:

...Only the common ar archive format is supported, with no long file name extensions, but with file names containing an optional trailing slash, which limits their length to 15 characters (from the 16 allowed)....

gdivis

Looks like that was our mistake, and we missed that line in the spec. This has now been logged as PG-1964, and it will be fixed in ProGet 5.3.30, scheduled for release on May 28.

Thanks for pointing it out, and sorry for the inconvenience!