Bug#481129: Insufficient apt repository documentation
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.11
Severity: important
The information about apt repositories is seriously lacking.
As far as I know there is no way how to verify that a repository layout
is correct other than trying to download an index file and a package
with apt. The apt documentation does not tell how to infer the files apt
tries to download from its configuration.
There is no documentation on creating Release files. There are some
outdated howtos around the net that suggest different fields than the
ones supported by apt-ftparchive.
However, Release files created with apt-ftparchive are ignored (Ign) by
apt without any explanation whatsoever.
The apt security feature requires working release files as only these
are signed.
Thanks
Michal
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.3-src (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-3 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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