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Re: Pending setup patches (issue 10)


On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 23:56, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 23:42, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > No last minute bugs anyone is aware of?
> > > 
> > > Are you talking about HEAD ?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> What about the particulary nasty bug, when you set packages to 'keep' in
> the 'partial view' and then cycle again to 'partial view' and this 
> packages are still there ?

Well, I'm going off the list of bugs that I got when I asked here a
couple of weeks ago, plus whats in the README. That bug wasn't
mentioned, and isn't in the README, so I didn't know about it.

I just tried it, and can't reproduce - please provide step by step to
reproduce.

> There was another nasty one which I have seen some time ago (repeatedly) 
> manifesting itself when I've used 'Install from Local Directory'. In the 
> 'Category View' if I click on 'automake' and some other packges this would 
> cause a crash. I remember that I tried to debug it but not too hard (time 
> constraints)... From what I recall it appeared that the bug is caused by 
> the String constructor recieving NULL pointer. Not quite sure though. Back 
> then  I had a large number of packges cached in the local download 
> directory. I'll try with the latest version and see if i can reproduce it.

Please do. You'll have time during the RC process (1 week) to find a way
to reproduce it.

Rob

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