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

[George Lee]

Ah, that rings some bells, I assumed the file is pure ascii text so I
copy/pasted
the file instead of copying it - because I don't have physical access to the
machine,
and files can't be transmitted out the internal network.

I guess that's what caused the problem...

George

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at researchut.com>wrote:

> 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
> --
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf
> RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
> "Necessity is the mother of invention."
>
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