Bug#752702: apt: please add a way to to retrieve the location of Packages/Sources files in /var/lib/apt/lists/
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de> wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> Quoting Julian Andres Klode (2014-06-25 22:28:51)
>> That software should use the API provided by APT to access APT files. The
>> layout of /var/lib/apt/lists and the contents of the files is an
>> implementation detail, we already broke the expectations of others once when
>> we renamed InRelease files to Release files if we could not trust them.
>> Furthermore, APT might store indices compressed in various formats. With
>> future archive changes, things might even become more different.
>
> maybe I am misreading your message but "That software should use the API
> provided by APT" sounds as if there is an API to retrieve the information that
> is otherwise given by the string returned by debPackagesIndex.Describe(). Which
> function am I overlooking?
Now I understand what you mean. I thought you meant the location of
the files on disk. Do you mean the location on the mirror instead?
Stuff like architecture, etc. is exported in the cache in
pkgCache::PackageFile.
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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