Hi, Quoting Julian Andres Klode (2014-06-25 23:02:33) > Well, as I said WRT on disk. We expose this, but you should most likely not > use it without APT parsers, as it may not contain data you expect (for > example, compressed indices). Using APT's parsers for those files is the best > idea.
what are "compressed indices"? I expected files that identify as "Debian Package Index" in my code snipped to always be deb822 format files? I never encountered a situation in which they were not. > You are reading the wrong list. You need to go through the cache, not the > pkgSourceList. pkgSourceList give you IndexFiles, the cache gives you > PackageFiles you can iterate over. You need to loop through the files in the > cache starting at Cache->FileBegin() and ending at Cache->FileEnd(). This > gives you pkgCache::PkgFileIterator() with stuff like FileName, Archive, > Component, Version, Architecture. but it gives me only binary packages and not source packages, right? To come back to my original problem: /var/lib/apt/lists/ contains Packages and Sources files and I want to know details about them. So far I only see how to get the information in a way that isnt reliable because a string has to be parsed or which limits me to binary packages. If some files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ are not in deb822 format, there should be a way to find that out too. cheers, josch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
