Re: New apt-repomd snapshot + other apt-rpm news

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Ville Skytt=E4 wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 20:44 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> I've uploaded a new snapshot of the work-in-progress apt-repomd branch:
>> http://laiskiainen.org/apt/testing/apt-repomd-16032006.tar.bz2
>>
>> Changes since the 10032006 snapshot:
>> - checksums are now verified for repository metadata and packages from
>> both old apt repositories and repomd
>> - fix from Ville Skytt=E4 to make it build with gcc-4.1
>> - don't crash on duplicate sources.list entries
>> - debugging output junk removed
>>
>> So, nothing too dramatic but steady progress anyway :)
>
> Builds nicely on pre-FC5 x86_64 (gcc 4.1), but reports a MD5Sum mismatch
> with Skype's repository [1] with which Smart, yum and the 01032006
> snapshot are happy with.

Hmm, curious... and yes I can reproduce that easily. The old snapshot=20
didn't verify checksums so it couldn't complain :) There was a silly issue=
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where trailing slash in sources.list would cause a checksum mismatch but=20
I already fixed that just before this snapshot, this is something else.=20
Will have a look when I've time.

> Also, I noticed also that this patch is not (yet?) included in 16032006:
> http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/pipermail/apt-rpm/2006-March/002729.html

I didn't apply the patch as is and don't remember if it's in the=20
repomd-branch at all.. but doesn't really matter because that part of the=
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code is in huge turmoil right now, I landed in a ~1500 line diff yesterday=
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after this snapshot shuffling stuff around to make way for a big=20
elimination of duplicate code, once that move is fully complete the issue=
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should be gone automatically because the srpm dependencies are done with=20
the same code as binary dependencies.

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