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authorMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2013-12-05 08:24:00 +0100
committerMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2013-12-05 08:24:00 +0100
commit44633bd7cac1ce68d4e475285a0f45b7a8952a7f (patch)
tree3e3af83bb955b9f49f38239d490b5173bb0b9ac4 /apt-pkg/contrib
parentb10b0c4aac5d0648125d4203eea6900032efb7ba (diff)
parent7014e1482942d00b66eb30061b0cf5d2a7b3ebf3 (diff)
Merge branch 'debian/sid' into ubuntu/master
Conflicts: apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc cmdline/apt-key.in debian/control doc/apt-key.8.xml doc/makefile doc/po/apt-doc.pot doc/po/de.po doc/po/es.po doc/po/fr.po doc/po/it.po doc/po/ja.po doc/po/pl.po doc/po/pt.po doc/po/pt_BR.po
Diffstat (limited to 'apt-pkg/contrib')
-rw-r--r--apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
index 3a6bdfe2e..7fbe4d604 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
@@ -1545,6 +1545,9 @@ bool FileFd::Skip(unsigned long long Over)
/* */
bool FileFd::Truncate(unsigned long long To)
{
+ // truncating /dev/null is always successful - as we get an error otherwise
+ if (To == 0 && FileName == "/dev/null")
+ return true;
#if defined HAVE_ZLIB || defined HAVE_BZ2
if (d != NULL && (d->gz != NULL || d->bz2 != NULL))
return FileFdError("Truncating compressed files is not implemented (%s)", FileName.c_str());