Ian> And this is my main question: have you figured out what causes this error?
Neil> Yes - the error is caused by not using reprepro. Neil> :-) I am afraid from my POV this is not particularly funny. The documentation (i.e. the apt manual and the secure apt wiki) doesn't mention reprepro (or mini-dinstall), I was trying to do this the documented way (well, except having a flat directory), and it didn't work. I don't feel "just use whiz-bang tool foo" is the correct answer in such a situation, or at least it is not the complete answer. That would include at least acknowledging that the documentation is wrong. Ian> Let me describe my situation: I have a flat (single directory) archive Ian> of personal debs. I see absolutely no point in maintaining "code names" Ian> and "suites" and what not. Neil> reprepro doesn't force these on you but it does not stop you adding Neil> them later either. OK, I'll take a look at reprepro. Ian> I generate the Packages.gz file by Ian> Ian> cd /var/local/debian && apt-ftparchive packages ./ | gzip - > Ian> Packages.gz Neil> Yuk. There should be no need to do this. Ian> and the Release file by Ian> Ian> cd /var/local/debian && apt-ftparchive release ./ > /tmp/Release && Ian> mv /tmp/Release . Neil> Nor that. This is all straight from the wiki. Ian> All this works flawlessly until I introduce signing. As soon as I Ian> add a Release.gpg file (generated by cd /var/local/debian && gpg Ian> -abs -o Release.gpg Release) apt-get starts giving me the above Ian> error message. Now the wording made me think that perhaps perhaps Ian> I should NOT compress the Packages file, so I tried to omit the Ian> gzip step above. But then apt-get complains it cannot retrieve Ian> Packages file! Neil> No. The error is because mini-dinstall doesn't support what you want. Huh? I didn't use mini-dinstall at all. I was generating the metadata manually, in the documented format. Neil> No. IMHO mini-dinstall is the quick hack which isn't capable of Neil> supporting advanced features like SecureApt. Again, I didn't use mini-dinstall - I generated the Secure Apt files as documented. -- This line is completely ham. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
