Re: how to create a Release file

[Tomas Davidek <davidek@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz>]

Damyan Ivanov wrote:

> apt-ftparchive(1) gives:
>   release
>      The  release  command  generates a Release file from a directory
>      tree. It recursively searches the given directory for  Packages,
>      Packages.gz, Packages.bz2, Sources, Sources.gz, Sources.bz2, Re‐
>      lease and md5sum.txt files. It then writes to stdout  a  Release
>      file containing an MD5 digest and SHA1 digest for each file.
>
>      Values  for  the  additional metadata fields in the Release file
>      are  taken  from  the  corresponding  variables  under  APT::FT‐
>      PArchive::Release,  e.g.  APT::FTPArchive::Release::Origin.  The
>      supported fields are: Origin, Label, Suite,  Version,  Codename,
>      Date, Architectures, Components, Description.
>
> See second paragraph. Perhaps a couple of "-o APT::FTPArchive::Xyz=Foo"
> options could help?
>  
Thanks for the answer, unfortunately it does not work (at least not in 
stable release). Any option I specified is not taken into account (no 
error messages on the output either!), the Release file still begins 
only with:
----------
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:30:22 UTC
MD5Sum:
...
----------
Maybe upgrading to testing solves the problem ?? Another question - 
where the Release file should be located ? According to docs I placed it 
into dists/<release>, but when looking at the debian mirrors I see also 
some Release files in dist/<release>/main/binary-i386 etc....

Can anyone comment on it, please ?

Thanks a lot,

best regards

          Tomas

E-mail : davidek@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz,
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