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Proget - Migration of Legacy Debian feed to "normal" Debian feed is broken
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Just tried migration of an old legacy Debian feed to a normal Debian feed. No errors were reported during the migration and in proget's web-UI, everything looks fine. However the feed is unusable with apt on any distro.
When running apt-get update (or apt update), it complains about the Packages file not being parsable like this:
Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/proget.graudatastorage.intern_debian_XTC-deb_dists_jammy_main_binary-amd64_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.If I look at the file mentioned above, It turns out, apt is correct in that there are multiple errors:
- Each package record MUST begin with the Package: field. Proget puts this field in between the other fields.
- Between the Size: field and the Filename: field, Proget puts an empty line which does not belong there. Empty line are reserved as record separators.
I also noticed some inconvenience with the Migration itself:
When migrating, proget uses the name of the legacy feed as Distro for the new feed. So if I want one of the usual Distro names (e.g. like bookworm), then I have to rename the old feed accordingly before starting the Migration. This might impact availability. It would be easier, if the Distro name could be entered manually when starting the migration.
Proget version: 2024.36 (Build 5) running in a docker container
Cheers
-Fritz -
Hi Fritz,
Thanks for reporting this; the underlying with the Packages index file isn't so much the migration, but the code that generates the index file on the new feed.
Basically, the control files seem to be have an extra new line that isn't being trimmed. The old feed code must have removed them.
Anyways we will address this via PG-2985 in the next maintenance release or you can try the
proget.inedo.com/productimages/inedo/proget:24.0.37-ci.2container now.Cheers,
Alana -
Many thanks, Alana!
I can confirm, that the proget:24.0.37-ci.2 container image works like a charm
Thanks for the quick fix!
- Fritz
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