Bug#262204: marked as done (apt-ftparchive: please let generate also create Release)
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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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Subject: apt-ftparchive: please let generate also create Release
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Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.5.26
Severity: wishlist
It looks like currently apt-ftparchive generate doesn't build Release
files, although as near as I can tell, the top-level Release file is
supposed to contain checksums of all of the Packages, Sources, and Release
files in the tree. (The apt archive format is a bit underdocumented, at
least in what I've been able to find, so I'm not positive.)
Since apt-ftparchive already has support for generating Release files,
it seems like it should be relatively easy to add support for generating
them as part of apt-ftparchive generate. This probably would also involve
letting apt-ftparchive use per-tree configuration sections to get the
APT::FTPArchive::Release variables.
If this sounds basically like a good idea and no one else is already
working on this, I'm willing to give this a try. It's been a long time
since I've written any C++, though, so any design pointers on how one
would go about adding this from someone already familiar with the
structure of apt-ftparchive would be *greatly* appreciated.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages apt-utils depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.26 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-16 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.4-3 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, 262204-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#262204: apt-ftparchive: please let generate also create Release
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:58:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Package: apt-utils
> Version: 0.5.26
> Severity: wishlist
>
> It looks like currently apt-ftparchive generate doesn't build Release
> files, although as near as I can tell, the top-level Release file is
> supposed to contain checksums of all of the Packages, Sources, and Release
> files in the tree. (The apt archive format is a bit underdocumented, at
> least in what I've been able to find, so I'm not positive.)
It certainly does, and it's documented in the obvious place (man
apt-ftparchive). Where did you look?
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