From 2183089968c04c4765d2119d176e021431b26353 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyril Brulebois Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:25:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] easy-build.sh: create top-level Release file for local packages MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Without this, apt would try and download way too many indices, resulting in 128 “Ign:” lines. With this, we're down to 4 “Ign:” lines (Release.gpg and InRelease, twice). Funnily enough, that changes apt's behaviour, which suddenly requires uncompressed Packages to be present. --- tools/Packages-gen | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/Packages-gen b/tools/Packages-gen index 978bc45a..7fc9f120 100755 --- a/tools/Packages-gen +++ b/tools/Packages-gen @@ -33,4 +33,15 @@ else fi [ -d $repo ] || mkdir -p $repo echo Creating Packages file for $repo... -apt-ftparchive packages $repo | pigz -9nm >$repo/Packages.gz +apt-ftparchive packages $repo > $repo/Packages + +# Fun fact, at least when building bookworm images on bullseye: +# - a missing Release file is fine, but maybe downloads follow; +# - a present Release file means uncompressed Packages must be present. +echo Creating Release file for dists/$distr... +( + cd dists/$distr + rm -f Release* + (echo "Codename: $distr"; apt-ftparchive release .) > Release.tmp + mv -f Release.tmp Release +)