Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:42:33PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
> It works because you got lucky, you had a CD that was fortunately
> constructed properly. It is not supported, and if it does not work, I
> totally don't care.
Of course, the CDs are constructed properly ! I'm in charge of maintaining
debian-cd so that it builds "properly constructed" CDs ...
I don't see why I need to change it to something where CDs are no more
properly constructed !
/me grumbles :
I'm really beginning to think that the only valid alternative is
to have a Release file and its signature for each CD.
> Because the release file says Packages, not Packages.cd - why should we
> make the release file inconsistant?
The Release file has been introduced after Packages file, and they should
have been thought of a bit more to avoid those problems.
We can let Release file mentionning Packages file and have the necessary
logic in APT to know that if Packages-signed exists that's the file to use
instead of Packages for checking the validity. You can make it specific
for cdrom BTW, I don't see the need for that for any other access method.
BTW, those changes would be limited to the "update" part of apt-get I
guess. Since you'll use the content of Packages-signed files to build the
internal apt cache but with only the files mentionned in Packages.
> Or if you ask particularly nice I might extend the sources.list syntax so
> you can tell it to read Packages.cd directly
I don't want that, it's a hack. :)
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