On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Russ Allbery wrote: > > What are you trying to do anyhow? I can't think of any good reason to > > split things up by binary-* unless you are maintaining a really big > > archive.. For smaller archives it is OK to produce a mixed architecture > > package file, apt/etc handle it just fine. > I'm trying to bring debarchiver's indexing up to snuff. I've been > submitting a flurry of patches to it -- it was originally using > dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources, and now it can use apt-ftparchive > and can generate the per-arch Release files. But I was trying to solve > problems I encountered in the right place, and from what documentation I > had, this seemed to be more of an apt-ftparchive thing.
Ah.. > With this additional information, I now know that debarchiver should be > creating symlinks when it installs "all" arch debs, and I'll go back and Well, I frankly consider the symlinks to have been a bad idea. I think you'd be better off with using file listings as I described for any new implementation. It is annoying to maintain the symlinks and there is really no need. > For my future reference, is there any documentation I should have turned > to that would have explained this sort of issue? I'm coming into this a > bit blind, not having had long experience with Debian's archive format, so > I'm trying to puzzle things out from what I've happened to stumble across. Hmm, I'm not aware of any. JAson
