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- <date>29 February 2004</date>
+ <date>17 August 2009</date>
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<arg><option>--delink</option></arg>
<arg><option>--readonly</option></arg>
<arg><option>--contents</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-o=<replaceable>config string</replaceable></option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--arch <replaceable>architecture</replaceable></option></arg>
+ <arg><option>-o <replaceable>config</replaceable>=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg><option>-c=<replaceable>file</replaceable></option></arg>
<group choice="req">
<arg>packages<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg><arg><replaceable>override</replaceable><arg><replaceable>pathprefix</replaceable></arg></arg></arg>
<varlistentry><term>release</term>
<listitem><para>
The <literal>release</literal> command generates a Release file from a
- directory tree. It recursively searches the given directory for
- Packages, Packages.gz, Packages.bz2, Sources, Sources.gz,
- Sources.bz2, Release and md5sum.txt files. It then writes to
- stdout a Release file containing an MD5 digest and SHA1 digest
+ directory tree. It recursively searches the given directory for uncompressed
+ <filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Sources</filename> files and the ones
+ compressed with <command>gzip</command>, <command>bzip2</command> or <command>lzma</command>
+ as well as <filename>Release</filename> and <filename>md5sum.txt</filename> files by default
+ (<literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Default-Patterns</literal>). Additional filename patterns
+ can be added by listing them in <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Patterns</literal>.
+ It then writes to stdout a Release file containing a MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 digest
for each file.</para>
<para>
Values for the additional metadata fields in the Release file are
e.g. <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Origin</literal>. The supported fields
are: <literal>Origin</literal>, <literal>Label</literal>, <literal>Suite</literal>,
<literal>Version</literal>, <literal>Codename</literal>, <literal>Date</literal>,
- <literal>Architectures</literal>, <literal>Components</literal>, <literal>Description</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ <literal>Valid-Until</literal>, <literal>Architectures</literal>,
+ <literal>Components</literal>, <literal>Description</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<para>
The <literal>Dir</literal> section defines the standard directories needed to
locate the files required during the generation process. These
- directories are prepended to certain relative paths defined in later
+ directories are prepended certain relative paths defined in later
sections to produce a complete an absolute path.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>ArchiveDir</term>
This is similar to <literal>Packages::Compress</literal>
except that it controls the compression for the Contents files.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
+ <varlistentry><term>Translation::Compress</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ This is similar to <literal>Packages::Compress</literal>
+ except that it controls the compression for the Translation-en master file.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term>DeLinkLimit</term>
<listitem><para>
Specifies the number of kilobytes to delink (and
defaults to 0644. All index files are set to this mode with no regard
to the umask.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term>LongDescription</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Sets if long descriptions should be included in the Packages file or split
+ out into a master Translation-en file.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>
<varlistentry><term>Sources</term>
<listitem><para>
- Sets the output Packages file. Defaults to
+ Sets the output Sources file. Defaults to
<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/source/Sources</filename></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
+ <varlistentry><term>Translation</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Set the output Translation-en master file with the long descriptions if they
+ should be not included in the Packages file. Defaults to
+ <filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/i18n/Translation-en</filename></para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term>InternalPrefix</term>
<listitem><para>
Sets the path prefix that causes a symlink to be
The <literal>Tree</literal> section takes a scope tag which sets the
<literal>$(DIST)</literal> variable and defines the root of the tree
(the path is prefixed by <literal>ArchiveDir</literal>).
- Typically this is a setting such as <filename>dists/woody</filename>.</para>
+ Typically this is a setting such as <filename>dists/&stable-codename;</filename>.</para>
<para>
All of the settings defined in the <literal>TreeDefault</literal> section can be
use in a <literal>Tree</literal> section as well as three new variables.</para>
<para>
When processing a <literal>Tree</literal> section <command>apt-ftparchive</command>
performs an operation similar to:
-<informalexample><programlisting>
+ <programlisting>
for i in Sections do
for j in Architectures do
Generate for DIST=scope SECTION=i ARCH=j
-</programlisting></informalexample></para>
+ </programlisting></para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>Sections</term>
architectures that appear under search section. The special architecture
'source' is used to indicate that this tree has a source archive.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
+ <varlistentry><term>LongDescription</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Sets if long descriptions should be included in the Packages file or split
+ out into a master Translation-en file.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term>BinOverride</term>
<listitem><para>
Sets the binary override file. The override file
&apt-cmdblurb;
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term><option>--md5</option></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>--md5</option>, <option>--sha1</option>, <option>--sha256</option></term>
<listitem><para>
- Generate MD5 sums. This defaults to on, when turned off the generated
- index files will not have MD5Sum fields where possible.
- Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::MD5</literal></para></listitem>
+ Generate the given checksum. These options default to on, when turned off the generated
+ index files will not have the checksum fields where possible.
+ Configuration Items: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::<replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> and
+ <literal>APT::FTPArchive::<replaceable>Index</replaceable>::<replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> where
+ <literal>Index</literal> can be <literal>Packages</literal>, <literal>Sources</literal> or <literal>Release</literal> and
+ <literal>Checksum</literal> can be <literal>MD5</literal>, <literal>SHA1</literal> or <literal>SHA256</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>-d</option></term><term><option>--db</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Make the caching databases read only.
Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::ReadOnlyDB</literal>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term><option>-a</option></term><term><option>--arch</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>Accept in the <literal>packages</literal> and <literal>contents</literal>
+ commands only package files matching <literal>*_arch.deb</literal> or
+ <literal>*_all.deb</literal> instead of all package files in the given path.
+ Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Architecture</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term><option>APT::FTPArchive::AlwaysStat</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ &apt-ftparchive; caches as much as possible of metadata in a cachedb. If packages
+ are recompiled and/or republished with the same version again, this will lead to problems
+ as the now outdated cached metadata like size and checksums will be used. With this option
+ enabled this will no longer happen as it will be checked if the file was changed.
+ Note that this option is set to "<literal>false</literal>" by default as it is not recommend
+ to upload multiply versions/builds of a package with the same versionnumber, so in theory
+ nobody will have these problems and therefore all these extra checks are useless.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term><option>APT::FTPArchive::LongDescription</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ This configuration option defaults to "<literal>true</literal>" and should only be set to
+ <literal>"false"</literal> if the Archive generated with &apt-ftparchive; also provides
+ <filename>Translation</filename> files. Note that the <filename>Translation-en</filename>
+ master file can only be created in the generate command.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
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