Re: apt-file update doesn't get Contents-i386.gz from my own apt repository
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:49:13PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have created my own apt simple repository
Which documentation recommended you to create a so called "simple
repository"? It should be avoided these days.
(See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_small_public_package_archive )
> # ls -1 /home/code/apt
> Contents
> Contents-i386.gz
> Packages
> Packages.gz
> db
> libconfig-properties-perl_1.70-1_all.deb
>
> I can install the package from that apt repository
>
> # cat <<EOF >> /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb file:///home/code/apt ./
> EOF
> # apt-get update
> Ign file: ./ Release.gpg
> Ign file: ./ Release
> Ign file: ./ Packages
Since "simple repository" does not have no secureAPT support without
Release.gpg. It does not work well with modern APT system.
> ...
> # apt-get install libconfig-properties-perl
> ...
> # perl -MConfig::Properties -e 'print($Config::Properties::VERSION."\n");'
> 1.70
>
> Great. That works.
I think you got libconfig-properties-perl from some properly made remote
repository ... most likely from http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/.
If it is from file:///home/code/apt, secure APT should
complain (as I understand when I made my local repository as local http
service. file:// may be different from http:// ... though.)
I do not know all the inside works of apt-file. It is not core APT
tool. If it has bus as commented, we need to work around it.
> What to do to get "apt-file update" behaving properly?
Wait its bug to be fixed ... ?
> (I'm using dh-make-perl which uses apt-file to locate prerequisite
> packages and that is how I ran into this problem.)
Osamu
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