Bug#45303: apt: undocumented error `Ign file:/home/jeff/debian/ potato/pkgs/ Release'

[Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.10slink11

Hi,

This line in my sources.list file,

     deb file:/home/jeff/debian  potato/pkgs/

appears to have elicited the error,

        Ign file:/home/jeff/debian/ potato/pkgs/ Release

while doing an apt-get update (using dselect).  It seems that the
Packages file from my local archive was processed okay anyway,
even though no `Hit' line was printed for it.

I searched everywhere, in vain, for how to build this `Release'
file for my local package archive, here is a sample from the CD-ROM,

    96 root ~ # cat /cdrom/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Release 
    Archive: stable
    Component: main
    Version: 2.1
    Origin: Debian
    Label: Debian
    Architecture: i386

BTW, apt rocks!

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Sheinberg  <jeffsh@erols.com>


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux eden-hda7 2.0.36 #2 Thu Jun 24 19:46:13 EDT 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.60-5      The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)