Hi all! I subscribed to the list 'cause I could not solve my problem with google (and all the relevant Debian documentation I could find...).
I have created a local repository for distributing software inside my local network. I wanted to secure the process, so I opted for a hierarchical structure (dists/my-dist/my-component/binary-my-arch), a dists/Release file and its gpg dists/Release.gpg signature. On the client side I added a .list file to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ with just one line: deb uri-of-my-repo my-dist my-component When I launch `sudo apt-get upgrade`, the Release and Release.gpg files are correctly downloaded into /var/lib/apt/lists/, but I get an error "Unable to find expected entry my-component/binary-my-arch/Packages in Release file" (my-dist, my-component and my-arch are not the actual names; actual names are lowercase, only letters). However the Release file does contain a line with the md5sum of the Packages file, its length in bytes and its name (including path: my-component/binary-my-arch/Packages). Moreover the Package file can be downloaded from the repository (I tried with wget on the client). If I manually copy the Packages file in /var/lib/apt/lists/ (with a name that includes its path, like other files in that dir), everything works fine. I don't understand what is the point. Any idea? Thanks, Stefano
