[Bug 985452] Re: apt-ftparchive fails on scanning large repositories

[Michael Vogt]

To reproduce do:
$ mkdir pool; cd pool
$ apt-get download 2vcard
$ for i in $(seq 1200); do cp 2vcard*.deb homer_clone_$i.deb; done
$ apt-ftparchive packages . > /dev/null

E: Failed to create pipes - pipe (24: Too many open files)

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Title:
  apt-ftparchive fails on scanning large repositories

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  See, for instance, the build log at:

  http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/livefs-build-logs/precise
  /ubuntu-server-omap4/20120419/livecd-20120419-armhf.out

  grep for "Failed to create"

  This is also reproducible locally with a sufficiently large collection
  of debs (over 1015ish, it seems like)

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