4 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
index efbf7aaf4..1c8acd513 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ bool CreateDirectory(string const &Parent, string const &Path)
       return false;
 
    // we are not going to create directories "into the blue"
-   if (Path.find(Parent, 0) != 0)
+   if (Path.compare(0, Parent.length(), Parent) != 0)
       return false;
 
    vector<string> const dirs = VectorizeString(Path.substr(Parent.size()), '/');
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/gpgv.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/gpgv.cc
index 0a469dd7a..9de227062 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/gpgv.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/gpgv.cc
@@ -260,8 +260,7 @@ bool SplitClearSignedFile(std::string const &InFile, FileFd * const ContentFile,
 
    char *buf = NULL;
    size_t buf_size = 0;
-   ssize_t line_len = 0;
-   while ((line_len = getline(&buf, &buf_size, in)) != -1)
+   while (getline(&buf, &buf_size, in) != -1)
    {
       _strrstrip(buf);
       if (found_message_start == false)
@@ -355,7 +354,7 @@ bool OpenMaybeClearSignedFile(std::string const &ClearSignedFileName, FileFd &Me
       return _error->Error("Couldn't open temporary file to work with %s", ClearSignedFileName.c_str());
 
    _error->PushToStack();
-   bool const splitDone = SplitClearSignedFile(ClearSignedFileName.c_str(), &MessageFile, NULL, NULL);
+   bool const splitDone = SplitClearSignedFile(ClearSignedFileName, &MessageFile, NULL, NULL);
    bool const errorDone = _error->PendingError();
    _error->MergeWithStack();
    if (splitDone == false)
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/hashes.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/hashes.cc
index b4c768db9..890573d9c 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/hashes.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/hashes.cc
@@ -129,13 +129,12 @@ bool Hashes::AddFD(int const Fd,unsigned long long Size, bool const addMD5,
 		   bool const addSHA1, bool const addSHA256, bool const addSHA512)
 {
    unsigned char Buf[64*64];
-   ssize_t Res = 0;
-   int ToEOF = (Size == 0);
+   bool const ToEOF = (Size == 0);
    while (Size != 0 || ToEOF)
    {
       unsigned long long n = sizeof(Buf);
       if (!ToEOF) n = std::min(Size, n);
-      Res = read(Fd,Buf,n);
+      ssize_t const Res = read(Fd,Buf,n);
       if (Res < 0 || (!ToEOF && Res != (ssize_t) n)) // error, or short read
 	 return false;
       if (ToEOF && Res == 0) // EOF
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/hashsum.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/hashsum.cc
index 289e43aa4..d02177724 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/hashsum.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/hashsum.cc
@@ -9,13 +9,12 @@
 /* */
 bool SummationImplementation::AddFD(int const Fd, unsigned long long Size) {
    unsigned char Buf[64 * 64];
-   ssize_t Res = 0;
-   int ToEOF = (Size == 0);
+   bool const ToEOF = (Size == 0);
    while (Size != 0 || ToEOF)
    {
       unsigned long long n = sizeof(Buf);
       if (!ToEOF) n = std::min(Size, n);
-      Res = read(Fd, Buf, n);
+      ssize_t const Res = read(Fd, Buf, n);
       if (Res < 0 || (!ToEOF && Res != (ssize_t) n)) // error, or short read
 	 return false;
       if (ToEOF && Res == 0) // EOF
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ bool SummationImplementation::AddFD(int const Fd, unsigned long long Size) {
 }
 bool SummationImplementation::AddFD(FileFd &Fd, unsigned long long Size) {
    unsigned char Buf[64 * 64];
-   bool ToEOF = (Size == 0);
+   bool const ToEOF = (Size == 0);
    while (Size != 0 || ToEOF)
    {
       unsigned long long n = sizeof(Buf);