An old issue that resurfaced, now that APT 0.6 entered Testing: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:24:33 -0800, mdz wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 23:38, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Oh. Also, you're expected to have entries for the md5sum & size > > > of the uncompressed Packages files *even if you only distribute the > > > compressed versions*. That's quite important for debootstrap's caching, > > > and possibly apt's. > > apt-ftparchive probably ought to automate this, but for now, it's easiest to > just keep an uncompressed Packages file around. Then, apt-ftparchive will > add an entry for it to Release automagically.
I would rather avoid keeping an uncompressed Packages file around, thus I would really be grateful if apt-ftparchive did the above on its own. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
