Re: please do not remove non-Release-file repos
On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 12:27:23PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Johannes Schauer dixit:
>
> >If you have this in a shell script anyways, can you not just also generate an
> >appropriate Release file with the same script?
>
> That’s about ten times the code, plus, I’d probably have to sign
> it, which means I need to generate a key, install that in the
> chroots (which I’d rather keep clean), etc. plus the logic to
> update the files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ would get much more complex.
As I wrote in the other email, you don't have to sign it, and
it's only one call to apt-ftparchive release to generate a release
file.
>
> There’s something to be said for KISS here.
>
A repository without a Release file is easy to generate but
*very* hard to fetch.
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