On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:04:54PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > 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,
(a) apt-ftparchive definitely ought to automate this; it's not outputting correctly formatted Release files if not. :) > > 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. (b) You could get apt to generate them, and the Release file, then rm them manually. "find dists/ -name Packages | xargs rm" :) Cheers, aj
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