Ah, that rings some bells, I assumed the file is pure ascii text so I copy/pasted<br>the file instead of copying it - because I don't have physical access to the machine,<br>and files can't be transmitted out the internal network.<br>
<br>I guess that's what caused the problem...<br><br>George<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rrs@researchut.com">rrs@researchut.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Friday 16 Apr 2010 20:37:04 George Lee wrote:<br>
> Just out of curiosity, what should the proper signature file look like ?<br>
<br>
</div>This is what an item to be broken down looked from the signature generated on<br>
my machine.<br>
<br>
Downloading <a href="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release" target="_blank">http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release</a>.<br>
<a href="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release" target="_blank">http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release</a> done.<br>
VERBOSE: Item is<br>
["'<a href="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release.gpg" target="_blank">http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release.gpg</a>'",<br>
'ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_Release.gpg', '0', '\n']<br>
VERBOSE: Thread is Thread-1<br>
<br>
<br>
where as on your box, the signature was this:<br>
<br>
Fetching APT Data<br>
<br>
VERBOSE: Item is ["'<a href="http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/Release" target="_blank">http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/Release</a>'",<br>
'ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_Release', '0\n']<br>
<div class="im">Exception in thread Thread-1:<br>
Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Notice your last item and mine. In my list, the 4th item is a newline<br>
character, where as in your case, you don't have the 4th item at all.<br>
<br>
So that's why I said, it is good to have bug reports like these where I can<br>
improve some of the assumptions I make and do better ExceptionHandling. :-)<br>
<br>
<br>
BTW, Did you modify the signature file (like open in a weird editor) after<br>
generating it with apt-offline set operation ?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
Ritesh<br>
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf<br>
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"Necessity is the mother of invention."<br>
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