Re: repository setup and apt-file usage

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Frank Guthausen wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:51:58 +0000 (GMT)
> Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Frank Guthausen wrote:
> > > The files of my packages are not included in the database of
> > > apt-file, the mandatory ``apt-file update'' does not help to find
> > > files or show files in my packages.
> > >
> > > I guess the problems are related.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure the contents files aren't necessary for a working repo
> > [...]
> >
> > I'm not sure which point is going wrong [...]
>
> The repository itself works fine. But I cannot use apt-file to show or
> find content of packages. And all the Contents-*.gz files are missing.
>
> I don't know any tool to generate them, and I don't know the workflow.

apt-ftparchive generates them. It's not the easiest thing to use though.

And I see you asked on debian-devel and someone there suggested what the
config setting is for reprepo I think.

Tim.