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cFire opened this issue Apr 30, 2019 · 3 comments
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Function pkg_names shows a package name for a non-existent package #3

cFire opened this issue Apr 30, 2019 · 3 comments

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cFire commented Apr 30, 2019

I'm not sure (yet) in which cases this happens, but I've found an example with "exiftool" which is not a package that exists, yet it is provided as the only matching package by pkg_search.

[ 06:50 coolfire@absolute-unit manager2-cli ]
$ apt search exiftool
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
forensics-extra/bionic,bionic,now 1.13 all [installed]
  Forensics Environment - extra console components (metapackage)

libimage-exiftool-perl/bionic,bionic,now 10.80-1 all [installed]
  library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files

ruby-mini-exiftool/bionic,bionic,now 2.9.0-1 all [installed,automatic]
  wrapper for exiftool command-line


[ 06:50 coolfire@absolute-unit manager2-cli ]
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'debian/apt_pkg'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Debian::AptPkg.init
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> Debian::AptPkg::PkgCache.update
=> false
irb(main):004:0> Debian::AptPkg::PkgCache.pkg_names('exiftool')
=> ["exiftool"]
irb(main):005:0>
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spk commented Jul 13, 2020

I don't remember why I exposed this method since I don't find any equivalent on python-apt... From my quick lookup this look to come from the Provides from libimage-exiftool-perl so it match on the cache this name. This works for package like archfs too. I think I'm going to remove this method when I've implemented a proper search method since this cause confusion cf #2

spk added a commit that referenced this issue Jul 22, 2020
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Debian::AptPkg::PkgCache.pkg_names deprecated
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ref #3
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spk commented Jul 22, 2020

I've started the listing of packages on cache in 0d76d71 and deprecated the pkg_names method its going to be removed in 0.6.0

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spk commented Sep 7, 2020

Package listing is released in https://github.com/spk/ruby-apt-pkg/releases/tag/v0.5.0

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