[Bug 113569] Re: update-pciids weird behavior

[Tim Gardner]

Just updated Trusty pciutils which worked fine for me. I didn't find any
extraneous files after running update-pciids.sh.

** Also affects: pciutils (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: Confirmed

** Changed in: pciutils (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  update-pciids weird behavior

Status in “pciutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “pciutils” source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: pciutils

  update-pciids.sh downloads a newer version of the pci.ids file. If
  available, it first downloads an bzip2 version of the file, then a
  gzipped one, then the plain text version. Then, it decompresses it and
  stores it in a plain, uncompressed text file.

  However, there is a debian patch that tries to modify it so it keeps
  the gzipped version. However, the patch doesn't work, and ends
  creating a /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz file, that's not gzipped. lspci
  however, reads first the .gz, and it works though it's not gzipped.
  That's why it has gone unnoticed.

  Steps to reproduce:
  With a clear installation:

  $ls -l /usr/share/misc/pci.ids*
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 428084 2007-03-05 11:51 /usr/share/misc/pci.ids

  $ sudo update-pciids
  --12:54:47--  http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids.bz2
             => `/usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz.new'
  Resolviendo pciids.sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.209
  Conectando a pciids.sourceforge.net|66.35.250.209|:80... conectado.
  Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK
  Longitud: 120,972 (118K) [text/plain]

  100%[=================================================================================================================>]
  120,972       21.89K/s    ETA 00:00

  12:54:53 (21.21 KB/s) - `/usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz.new' guardado
  [120972/120972]

  Done.

  (notice how it downloads the .bz2 version and saves it as .gz.new)
  $ ls -l /usr/share/misc/pci.ids*
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 428084 2007-03-05 11:51 /usr/share/misc/pci.ids
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 462320 2007-05-09 12:57 /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz

  $file /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz 
  /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz: ASCII English text, with CR, LF line terminators

  (notice how /usr/share/misc/pci.ids is untouched, and
  /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz is NOT a gzipped file).

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