[Bug 1039023] [NEW] apt fails on packages greater than 3.3GB in size

[msp3k]

Public bug reported:

I roll custom packages for use in-house to distribute software to
machines.  One package distributes the free-but-proprietary Intel
software development suite.  It is 3.7GB in size.  When installing, I
see the following error:

(Note that host and domain name information has been replaced with
"<mydomain>".)

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  <mydomain>-intel-software-development-products
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,636 MB of archives.
After this operation, 12.9 GB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://<mydomain>/flagon/repositories/<mydomain>-proprietary/ stable/main <mydomain>-intel-software-development-products amd64 2011-3 [3,636 MB]
Fetched 3,636 MB in 1min 38s (36.8 MB/s)                                       
E: Unable to seek ahead 3633241954
E: Prior errors apply to /var/cache/apt/archives/<mydomain>-intel-software-development-products_2011-3_amd64.deb
debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory
Selecting previously unselected package <mydomain>-intel-software-development-products.
(Reading database ... 660705 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking <mydomain>-intel-software-development-products (from .../<mydomain>-intel-software-development-products_2011-3_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up <mydomain>-intel-software-development-products (2011-3) ...

Either apt and apt-extracttemplates should be able to handle packages of
this size, or the package build tools should generate an error and
refuse to allow the user to generate packages of this size to begin
with.  Either way, it seems to me to be a bug.

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  apt fails on packages greater than 3.3GB in size

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I roll custom packages for use in-house to distribute software to
  machines.  One package distributes the free-but-proprietary Intel
  software development suite.  It is 3.7GB in size.  When installing, I
  see the following error:

  (Note that host and domain name information has been replaced with
  "<mydomain>".)

  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    <mydomain>-intel-software-development-products
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
  Need to get 3,636 MB of archives.
  After this operation, 12.9 GB of additional disk space will be used.
  Get:1 http://<mydomain>/flagon/repositories/<mydomain>-proprietary/ stable/main <mydomain>-intel-software-development-products amd64 2011-3 [3,636 MB]
  Fetched 3,636 MB in 1min 38s (36.8 MB/s)                                       
  E: Unable to seek ahead 3633241954
  E: Prior errors apply to /var/cache/apt/archives/<mydomain>-intel-software-development-products_2011-3_amd64.deb
  debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory
  Selecting previously unselected package <mydomain>-intel-software-development-products.
  (Reading database ... 660705 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking <mydomain>-intel-software-development-products (from .../<mydomain>-intel-software-development-products_2011-3_amd64.deb) ...
  Setting up <mydomain>-intel-software-development-products (2011-3) ...

  Either apt and apt-extracttemplates should be able to handle packages
  of this size, or the package build tools should generate an error and
  refuse to allow the user to generate packages of this size to begin
  with.  Either way, it seems to me to be a bug.

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