Package: apt-utils Version: 0.5.26 Severity: wishlist It looks like currently apt-ftparchive generate doesn't build Release files, although as near as I can tell, the top-level Release file is supposed to contain checksums of all of the Packages, Sources, and Release files in the tree. (The apt archive format is a bit underdocumented, at least in what I've been able to find, so I'm not positive.)
Since apt-ftparchive already has support for generating Release files, it seems like it should be relatively easy to add support for generating them as part of apt-ftparchive generate. This probably would also involve letting apt-ftparchive use per-tree configuration sections to get the APT::FTPArchive::Release variables. If this sounds basically like a good idea and no one else is already working on this, I'm willing to give this a try. It's been a long time since I've written any C++, though, so any design pointers on how one would go about adding this from someone already familiar with the structure of apt-ftparchive would be *greatly* appreciated. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages apt-utils depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.26 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-16 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libgcc1 1:3.3.4-3 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
