Re: release/something metadata file

Jeff Licquia <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
seth vidal wrote:
> I think that could work how would apt go about dealing with a repository
> that does NOT have that data, though? Would it be able to complete?

If done right, it should.  Currently, Release information is optional in 
apt; if the file isn't there, it's skipped.
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