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authorDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2016-08-24 09:47:48 +0200
committerDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2016-08-24 10:24:41 +0200
commit2e2865ae53a65c00dd55a892d5b48458f3110366 (patch)
tree75547baee53574ba399f179b7a62ab651e8cf7c0 /doc/design.dbk
parentac103d45f63bd9a57ff867a52c7c95616f6daf51 (diff)
do fail on weakhash/loop earlier in acquire
The bugreport shows a segfault caused by the code not doing the correct magical dance to remove an item from inside a queue in all cases. We could try hard to fix this, but it is actually better and also easier to perform these checks (which cause instant failure) earlier so that they haven't entered queue(s) yet, which in return makes cleanup trivial. The result is that we actually end up failing "too early" as if we wouldn't be careful download errors would be logged before that process was even started. Not a problem for the acquire system, but likely to confuse users and programs alike if they see the download process producing errors before apt was technically allowed to do an acquire (it didn't, so no violation, but it looks like it to the untrained eye). Closes: 835195
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