[Apt-offline-devel] Questions about apt-offline

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Friday 16 Apr 2010 20:37:04 George Lee wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what should the proper signature file look like ?

This is what an item to be broken down looked from the signature generated on 
my machine.

Downloading http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release.                                                                 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release done.                                                            
VERBOSE: Item is 
["'http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release.gpg'", 
'ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_Release.gpg', '0', '\n']                                                                                                                     
VERBOSE: Thread is Thread-1                                                                                                          


where as on your box, the signature was this:

Fetching APT Data

VERBOSE: Item is ["'http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/Release'", 
'ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_Release', '0\n']
Exception in thread Thread-1:                                                                                                        
Traceback (most recent call last):


Notice your last item and mine. In my list, the 4th item is a newline 
character, where as in your case, you don't have the 4th item at all.

So that's why I said, it is good to have bug reports like these where I can 
improve some of the assumptions I make and do better ExceptionHandling. :-)


BTW, Did you modify the signature file (like open in a weird editor) after 
generating it with apt-offline set operation ?

Ritesh
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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