Re: [DebianGIS] reprepro md5sum problem - mapserver-doc

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:23:00PM +0200, Ivan Mincik wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have quite out of topic question, but some debian maintainers can help me.
> 
> I compile custom mapserver packages for our company using pbuilder for
> i386 and amd64 architectures. For both architectures (i386 and amd64)
> I get the same resulting deb file mapserver-doc_5.2.2-1_all.deb which
> is identical by name and also by content. It is OK.
> The problem is that md5sum in *.changes files is different for both
> architectures. (When I tar one directory twice, I will get different
> md5sum) This is causing problems when uploading files to repository
> using reprepro. (You can not have the same file with different md5sum,
> also in /pool/m/mapserver directory You can't have same filename).
> 
> What is the solution in this case ? I think editing *.changes files by
> hand is not the right one, because You can have this problem in every
> package containing "_all"  architecture debs (usually docs ...) I
> can't find any docs to this case.
> 

You should not generate arch-indep files for more than an arch, use -B
for the non primary arch.

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Francesco P. Lovergine