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Bug 746 - Debian-like repositories: Contents files are missing
Summary: Debian-like repositories: Contents files are missing
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURPROBLEM
Alias: None
Product: TDE
Classification: Unclassified
Component: debian (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.13 [Trinity]
Hardware: All Linux
: P5 wishlist
Assignee: Timothy Pearson
URL:
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-12-15 04:09 CST by Laurent Dard
Modified: 2018-08-01 05:36 CDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Laurent Dard 2011-12-15 04:09:22 CST 
Apt-file doesn't work with trinity'repositories because they're missing
Contents files for Debian and Ubuntu distributions.

But when looking for a specific file to install (a missing header at the
moment) it's a precious tool.
  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-search.en.html#s-apt-file

It would be good to generate those files.
  (http://wiki.debian.org/HowToSetupADebianRepository#apt-ftparchive)

Example on Ubuntu:
  $ apt-file update
  Ignoring source without Contents File:
    http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/Contents-amd64.gz
  Ignoring source without Contents File:
    http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/Contents-amd64.gz
Comment 1 Timothy Pearson 2014-09-28 00:08:19 CDT 
We use QuickBuild, a fork of Launchpad, to manage our PPAs.  Unfortunately Launchpad does not support the feature in question at this time.  A bug report requesting this feature was filed against Launchpad many years ago and is still open.

I do agree that this feature would be useful, but I am not skilled enough in Launchpad development to add it.  If it is added to Launchpad in the future I can try to port it to QuickBuild, but until then there is nothing I can do.

The upstream bug report is here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/335161