[Bug 845716] Re: APT fails on packages >= 2 GB

[perhov]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 250909 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250909

0.8.16~exp5ubuntu6 succeeds, but with a warning:

root at XXXXXXXX:/var/tmp/apt.pkg/apt-0.8.16~exp5ubuntu6/bin# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./apt-get install matlab2011b
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  matlab2011b-bin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  matlab2011b matlab2011b-bin
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,286 MB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://XXXXXXXX/ common/ matlab2011b-bin 1 [2,286 MB]
Get:2 http://XXXXXXXX/ common/ matlab2011b 1 [7,676 B]                                                                                                           
Fetched 2,286 MB in 30s (75.7 MB/s)                                                                                                                                         
Selecting previously deselected package matlab2011b-bin.
(Reading database ... 644888 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking matlab2011b-bin (from .../matlab2011b-bin_1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package matlab2011b.
Unpacking matlab2011b (from .../matlab2011b_1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up matlab2011b-bin (1) ...
Setting up matlab2011b (1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/matlab2011b to provide /usr/bin/matlab (matlab) in auto mode.

W: Size of file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/matlab2011b-
bin_1_amd64.deb is not what the server reported 2285595598
18446744071700179918



It also shows the wrong file size while downloading:

51% [1 matlab2011b-bin 1,173 MB/18.4 EB 0%]
81.2 MB/s 13s

This seems to be only cosmetic.

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Title:
  APT fails on packages >= 2 GB

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 10.04 apt-0.7.25.3ubuntu9.6

  "apt-get install <package>" fails when trying to install packages
  larger than approximately 2 GB.

  The reason is that APT uses incorrect data types - it counts bytes in
  floating point(!) as well as signed 32-bit variables, and uses atoi()
  to convert string representations of sizes to numbers.

  The attached patch makes APT use ssize_t and atol().

  Symptoms when installing from a private repository containing large
  packages:

  # apt-get install matlab2011b
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    matlab2011b-bin
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    matlab2011b matlab2011b-bin
  0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 126 not upgraded.
  2.2856e+09,-2.00936e+09
  How odd.. The sizes didn't match, email apt at packages.debian.org
  Need to get 2,286MB/2,286MB of archives.
  After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  Get:1 http://XXXXXXXX/ common/ matlab2011b-bin 1 [2,286MB]
  Fetched 1B in 24s (0B/s)
  Failed to fetch http://XXXXXXXX/common/matlab2011b-bin_1_amd64.deb  Size mismatch
  W: Bizarre Error - File size is not what the server reported 2285595598 18446744071700179918
  E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

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