Hello.

Maybe this question belongs more to debian-devel than debian-user:

According to the repository format wiki page[1] there exists contents
indices files, e.g. in Debian bookworm main[2]. How are they generated?
Is there documentation in the Debian wiki? Some tool to support this?

I created a repository with reprepro, but this generates Release
and Packages files only, not the Contens-*.gz files. The content
of this repository is invisible to apt-file.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format#A.22Contents.22_indices
[2] https://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/

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kind regards
Frank

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On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 07:46:03PM +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote:

Hello.

Maybe this question belongs more to debian-devel than debian-user:

According to the repository format wiki page[1] there exists contents
indices files, e.g. in Debian bookworm main[2]. How are they generated?
Is there documentation in the Debian wiki? Some tool to support this?

I created a repository with reprepro, but this generates Release
and Packages files only, not the Contens-*.gz files. The content
of this repository is invisible to apt-file.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format#A.22Contents.22_indices
[2] https://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/

I'm pretty sure I could find some info on the format of the Contents
files (they seem to be pretty much "path <whitespace> section/pkgname"),
but if your question is really about reprepro, then take a look at
the "Contents" option in the definition of a distribution
(the conf/distributions file); putting "Contents:" on a line by
itself will make reprepro generate the files.

G'luck,
Peter

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On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:06:34 +0200
Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 07:46:03PM +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote:

I created a repository with reprepro, but this generates Release
and Packages files only, not the Contens-*.gz files. The content
of this repository is invisible to apt-file.

I'm pretty sure I could find some info on the format of the Contents
files (they seem to be pretty much "path <whitespace>
section/pkgname"), but if your question is really about reprepro,

I understood the format, but not the/any tool to create those files.

then take a look at the "Contents" option in the definition of a
distribution (the conf/distributions file); putting "Contents:" on a
line by itself will make reprepro generate the files.

This was exactly the missing point. I regenerated the repository with
this option and now apt-file sees all the files in the packages. THX
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kind regards
Frank

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