On Sunday, 22 April 2012 at 18:32:09 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Mike,
On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 20:07 +0200, Mike Wey wrote:
[...]
Odd trying to download
http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files/./Packages with a browser or
wget completes without any errors.
http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files/./Packages
in unix-like system is same than:
http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files/Packages
Hummm... here too. Perhaps browser and wget look for Packages
and then
Packages.txt whereas aptitude/apt-get do not? I note that the
Debian
repositories have Package.gz not Package.txt, might this be
indicative
that plain text should be Packages? This is certainly the
filename I
use on my personal deb repository.
On d-apt server there are 4 control files:
Packages
(text plain file containing data about all deb packages)
Packages.gz
(Packages file compressed)
Release
(contains several checksums of Packages and Packages.gz files)
Release.gpg
(Release signed with d-apt key. verifiable with public key on
d-apt-keyring)
In an standard apt server there are more control files, but these
four are the basic to make the d-apt server to work.
Best regards,
