From: Steven Barth <steven@midlink.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:05:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: IPKG würgaround
X-Git-Tag: 0.9.0~980
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=34283b2733494f2a3eab890cff79a57a073dc38d;p=oweals%2Fluci.git

IPKG würgaround
---

diff --git a/libs/ipkg/luasrc/model/ipkg.lua b/libs/ipkg/luasrc/model/ipkg.lua
index b06834510..3df4bf945 100644
--- a/libs/ipkg/luasrc/model/ipkg.lua
+++ b/libs/ipkg/luasrc/model/ipkg.lua
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ $Id$
 ]]--
 
 local os   = require "os"
+local io   = require "io"
 local util = require "luci.util"
 
 local type  = type
@@ -83,7 +84,15 @@ local function _lookup(act, pkg)
 		cmd = cmd .. " '" .. pkg:gsub("'", "") .. "'"
 	end
 	
-	return _parselist(util.execi(cmd .. " 2>/dev/null"))
+	-- IPKG sometimes kills the whole machine because it sucks
+	-- Therefore we have to use a sucky approach too and use
+	-- tmpfiles instead of directly reading the output
+	local tmpfile = os.tmpname()
+	os.execute(cmd .. (" >%s 2>/dev/null" % tmpfile))
+
+	local data = _parselist(io.lines(tmpfile))
+	os.remove(tmpfile)
+	return data
 end