On 31 Jul 2007 09:53:16 -0400, Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Let me describe my situation: I have a flat (single directory) archive
> of personal debs. I see absolutely no point in maintaining "code names"
> and "suites" and what not. So I put the debs into /var/local/debian
> (which apache aliases to /debian/) on my.server.com, and in the clients'
> sources.list I put
>
> deb http://my.server.com/debian/ ./
>
> I generate the Packages.gz file by
>
> cd /var/local/debian && apt-ftparchive packages ./ | gzip - > Packages.gz
After looking at your repository, I have determined that this is where
the problem occurs. You need to also generate a Packages file
(uncompressed). You still need the Packages.gz file though, as apt
only wants to download that one. So, changing the command to:
cd /var/local/debian && \
apt-ftparchive packages ./ > Packages && \
gzip -c Packages > Packages.gz
should work to create both files. (It's worth noting that you could
probably create an apt-ftparchive config file, and then creating both
Packages files and the Release file would only involve one invocation
of "apt-ftparchive generate".)
> and the Release file by
>
> cd /var/local/debian && apt-ftparchive release ./ > /tmp/Release && mv
> /tmp/Release .
>
> Followed by apt-get update on the clients of course.
>
> All this works flawlessly until I introduce signing. As soon as I add a
> Release.gpg
> file (generated by cd /var/local/debian && gpg -abs -o Release.gpg Release)
> apt-get starts giving me the above error message. Now the wording made me
> think
> that perhaps perhaps I should NOT compress the Packages file, so I tried to
> omit
> the gzip step above. But then apt-get complains it cannot retrieve Packages
> file!
It also works fine if you don't have the key in the apt secure key
ring. I'm not sure why this is, but adding a successful key check
seems to create this problem. There's almost certainly a bug in apt
somewhere here, or maybe a couple, since I don't think apt should
require a Packages file when it has no intention of downloading it.
Cameron
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