merged from the debian-sid branch

[apt.git] / apt-pkg / indexcopy.cc

diff --git a/apt-pkg/indexcopy.cc b/apt-pkg/indexcopy.cc
index 9e5c03e0b1ac065cbbc15eefe13446c607b1be52..b1e75e30f2e6b4cb30453c01520ebeb948739d8b 100644 (file)
--- a/apt-pkg/indexcopy.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/indexcopy.cc
@@ -522,6 +522,15 @@ bool SigVerify::Verify(string prefix, string file, indexRecords *MetaIndex)
 {
    const indexRecords::checkSum *Record = MetaIndex->Lookup(file);
 
+   // we skip non-existing files in the verifcation to support a cdrom
+   // with no Packages file (just a Package.gz), see LP: #255545
+   // (non-existing files are not considered a error)
+   if(!FileExists(prefix+file))
+   {
+      _error->Warning("Skipping non-exisiting file %s", string(prefix+file).c_str());
+      return true;
+   }
+
    if (!Record) 
    {
       _error->Warning("Can't find authentication record for: %s",file.c_str());