[apt 0.6.23] Unable to find expected entry /source/Sources
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I've been using the experimental branch of apt for quite some time now,
without problems. I'm keeping my own or modified packages in a local
repository that I access from several machines in my network, but until
now I only used it for compiled packages. Today I tried adding a deb-src
line to sources.list and "apt-get update" gave me this error:
Get:1 http://athlon ./ Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://athlon ./ Release
Hit http://athlon ./ Packages
[...]
Failed to fetch http://athlon/~flavio/debian/./Release Unable to
find expected entry /source/Sources in Meta-index file
(malformed Release file?)
There is no line saying "Hit http://athlon ./ Sources" as I would have
expected; the Sources file is of course there and it is not empty.
I reverted to the standard apt from unstable: the error went away and I
could install sources for my packages with "apt-get source package".
My wild guess is that the problem has its origin in
debReleaseIndex::SourceIndexURISuffix() not using the same logic as
debReleaseIndex::IndexURISuffix() to build the URI suffix. This is in
file apt-pkg/deb/debmetaindex.cc.
The offending part of my sources.list file looks like this:
deb http://athlon/~flavio/debian/ ./
deb-src http://athlon/~flavio/debian/ ./
The Release file I'm using is attached; it is being generated with
apt-ftparchive and some suitable -o options.
The files are served by Apache, if that matters.
--
Ciao, Flavio
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 12:21:58 UTC
Label: Flavio
Origin: Flavio
Suite: experimental
MD5Sum:
83731898a47c3bd49b2afe5bbf473b64 23016 Packages
fd0720765e5af5d9d91508b560799a80 4863 Packages.gz
c3b20545abaae84bebe8f95c8c3ab6ab 3488 Sources
f49854df5a4533597a352a8962ba398a 1333 Sources.gz
SHA1:
d91b6710a78c19aff9ddc1076d0cffe44f8cd747 23016 Packages
ba4a751cb3c0155fb03260f40a150889eda5cebb 4863 Packages.gz
baa54ad3d194fb52edbdd0eb4b823ef35f8763e6 3488 Sources
1ffdc5531a62db58516a55f2f20be56e7b9bd5a5 1333 Sources.gz
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