Re: creating Release files
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:30:52AM -0400, Ervin Hearn III wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:11:48AM +0200, Marco Herrn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > where can I find information about the structure of Release files? And
> > are there any tools to create them automatically?
> >
> > Regards
> > Marco
>
> Hi Marco,
>
> The best resource I've found has been:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html#release
>
> I'm not aware of any utility for creating them, but I haven't looked too hard,
> since they are fairly simple text files.
>
> I hope that helps.
That recipe does not account for the MD5 hashes, which will become much more
important in the near future when we start using them to authenticate
packages with apt.
apt-ftparchive generates complete Release files.
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- mdz
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