Hi, > > When dputing a package with architecture "all", the .deb > > file is copied into Binary-all/... as expected, but > > Binary-all/Packages does not contain the package info. > > Right. The content of this file is merged into the > Packages(.gz|.bz2) files of available architectures. > > > Instead, Binary-i386/Packages contains that info, which is > > wrong. > > IMHO you are wrong. This is the common way to handle > binary-all packages. Compare it with the official archives. > IMO you are also wrong if you believe, that you can fetch > binary-all/Packages(.gz|.bz2). AFAIR only > binary-$your_arch/Packages(.gz|.bz2) is fetched. That's the > reason, why information from binary-all must be merged with > the other architectures. Please correct me, if I'm wrong.
I checked on a Debian mirror, and you are right. > > As a consequence, the package is not apt-get installable. > > It is, but only for those architectures which are supported by > the repository. In fact, my architecture is i386, and I still was not able to apt-get install a package. Unfortunately, I could not reproduce the bug that triggered this report, sorry. I dont know why, but it all works now, after apt-get --purge remove debarchiver, deleting /var/lib/debarchiver, reinstalling debarchiver and re-dputing my packages. O_o I think that my mistake was that I did manually run debarchiver -so (because I did not want to wait for cron) as root, not as user debarchiver. It probably made some files/directories unmodifiable afterwards when run as user debarchiver? Anyway, you can surely close this bug. > > This bug seems to be well-known, cf. the end of section > > 3.1.1 in http://debian.wgdd.de/howto/howto-aptrep.de.html > > I guess you mean section 3.3.1. But there it is only written, > that apt-ftparchive cannot handle binary-all packages > properly. And the reason why it cannot handle them properly > is, that it creates binary-all/Packages instead of putting the > info into > binary-$arch/Packages. Well, my German is a bit dusty... ^_- -- Romain LENGLET -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
