To reproude: create a package with an insanely long pkgdesc (more than 300 chars?) and run apk index thepackage.apk.

It will trigger an error:

ERROR: Index generation failed: Success

(from redmine: issue id 1476, created on 2012-11-22, closed on 2013-10-02)

• Relations:
  • relates #1477
• Changesets:
  • Revision 447b194b by Timo Teräs on 2013-05-30T09:22:35Z:

index: add sensible error message if metadata is too long

fixes #1476

Instead of:
ERROR: Index generation failed: Success

The following is now printed:
ERROR: Metadata for package timo-1.0-r0 is too long.
ERROR: Index generation failed: No buffer space available