Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:53:26 -0400
Message-Id: <199704260353.XAA03719@localhost.bu.edu>
From: <swift@bu.edu>
Subject: dpkg: long fs names reported from df break space calculations
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Reply-to: swift@alum.mit.edu

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.8


df reports the following:

~# df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1            2425288 1350769   949126     59%   /
/dev/hdc1            1245664  473408   772256     38%   /windisk
/dev/hdc3             474227      13   449720      0%   /xtra
satellite:/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian
                      301049   62446   223055     22%   /mnt

~> df --version
df (GNU fileutils) 3.16


Notice that the long fs name causes df to split output for that fs into two
lines.  This breaks logic in dpkg that tries to determine the available bytes
for a long fs.  It would say the available bytes is "22%"; my reverse
engineering guess is that it's taking the fourth field from a line that matches
the right mount directory.  The fourth field in this case is the fifth field in
the normal case.


-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux localhost 2.0.30 #1 Thu Apr 24 13:34:49 EDT 1997 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
libc5	Version: 5.4.23-2
ncurses3.0	Version: 1.9.9e-1