On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:16 -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > > --On March 2, 2007 10:36:13 AM -0500 Anthony DeRobertis > <aderobertis@metrics.net> wrote: > > > On 03/02/2007 02:34 AM, Michael Loftis wrote: > >> My biggest problem right now is apparently mini-dinstall can't produce > >> *properly* signed Releases and thus etch basically refuses to use the > >> repository. > > > > Works for me. > > It doesn't work because mini-dinstall produces "broken" archives. A > standard archive is layed out differently from mini-dinstall archives. the > etch security stuff expects a signed release file in the binary-$(ARCH) dir > that mini-dinstall doesn't create, instead each arch is in a dir named > $(ARCH). You end up having to manually create Release files for each arch. > this is with mini-dinstall Version: 0.6.21 <snip> They're not broken. APT can deal with mini-dinstall's simple layouts as well as the standard Debian archive layout. Look at the manual page under "archive_style" to find out how to write the APT sources lines. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg
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