Bug#622912: apt: apt-get update fails for repositories which do not have a Release file
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.14
This change:
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| apt (0.8.14) unstable; urgency=low
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| [ Julian Andres Klode ]
| * apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc:
| - Use Release files even if they cannot be verified (LP: #704595)
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has the side effect that "apt-get update" now fails for repositories
that do not have a Release file at all, such as flat directories scanned
with dpkg-scanpackages:
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| % LANG=C sudo apt-get update
| Ign file: debs/ InRelease
| Ign file: debs/ Release.gpg
| Err file: debs/ Release
| rename failed, No such file or directory (/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/_usr_local_var_apt_debs_Release -> /var/lib/apt/lists/_usr_local_var_apt_debs_Release).
| Ign file: debs/ Translation-en
| Ign file: debs/ Translation-de
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable InRelease
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental InRelease
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex
| Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib TranslationIndex
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main TranslationIndex
| Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free TranslationIndex
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Sources/DiffIndex
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
| Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main TranslationIndex
| Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Translation-de
| Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Translation-en
| Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Translation-de
| Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Translation-en
| Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Translation-de
| Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Translation-en
| Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Translation-de
| W: Failed to fetch file:/usr/local/var/apt/debs/Release rename failed, No such file or directory (/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/_usr_local_var_apt_debs_Release -> /var/lib/apt/lists/_usr_local_var_apt_debs_Release).
|
| E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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I have now changed my script to run "apt-ftparchive release" to work around
the problem, but I think this was not intentional.
-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 101
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb file:/usr/local/var/apt debs/
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
# deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc3-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
ii apt-doc 0.8.14 Documentation for APT
ii aptitude 0.6.3-4 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.1 Debian package development tools
ii python-apt 0.7.100.3 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii xz-lzma [lzma] 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities -
-- no debconf information
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