On 21/08/2018 22:01, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
It looks like that APT supports now clean atomic updates of all the
indices by retrieving index files listed in the release file under
an alternated path based on their checksums...
Updated link:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format#indices_acquisition_via_hashsums_.28by-hash.29
Two years have passed and we're still lacking this important feature. Kali
is willing to put money on the table if it can help to get this
implemented.
Bernhard, do you have plans to work on this? Would you be willing to
review and merge a patch implementing this feature? If you have upfront
requirements, please share them in this ticket.
Anyone interested to be paid to implement this feature can contact me
privately (including you Bernhard) and we will work out the details.
I've also got a bit tired of waiting and started work on a
proof-of-concept for this. My code so far is at:
https://salsa.debian.org/bootc/reprepro/-/merge_requests/1
(It's an MR into my own repo because Bernhard has MRs disabled, but it
might be handy for people to be able to comment on the code etc...)
It's very much not ready yet and is lacking documentation, but in my
brief testing it does appear to work.
Please let me know what you think, and what it might take to get this in
reprepro properly.
Cheers,
Chris
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Chris Boot
bo...@debian.org
