Re: pool to dists assocation?
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Apr 2014, Peter Michaux wrote:
>>
>> Using dpkg --info for these two packages, I don't see what information
>> is used about the package so that dpkg-ftparchive knows with which
>> distribution to associate each package.
>
> The association between versions of binary/source packages and a suite
> is tracked by dak which builds the Packages and Sources files. [There's
> a postgresql database which actually tracks all of this.]
Isn't this exposed to users through, for example,
"http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.{bz2,gz}";,
which is downloaded by "apt-get update" to "/var/lib/apt/lists/" as
"ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages"?
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