Bug report: poldek segfaults while reading sources

[Pawel A. Gajda]

Wednesday 10/12/2003 16:26:10, Andreas Piesk:
> Petter Urkedal schrieb:
> | A get a consistent segmentation fault when poldek 0.18.1 is reading
> | from one of my repositories.  My system is
> |
> |     Linux ns2.nordita.dk 2.4.20-24.9smp #1 SMP Mon Dec 1 11:25:17 EST
> 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> |
> | The contents of poldek.conf is
> |
> |     source = updates /data/common/redhat/9/RPMS.updates-i386
> |     source = shipped /data/common/redhat/9/RPMS.cd3
[...]
> don't use gzipped indexes with redhat 9, fedora or redhat advanced
> server 3, it doesn't work. i had the same problems. after switching to
> not compressed indexes the segfaults are gone.

This is because RPM from RH and Fedora has buggy zlib 
linked into librpmio. In 0.18.3 version (just released), 
I've made a workaround for this problem, just put:

vfile_external_compress=yes

into config file. 

> i reported the problem some time ago, no response til now.

Sorry for such delay.