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<title>APT Files</title>
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<author>Jason Gunthorpe <email>jgg@debian.org</email></author>
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-<version>$Id: files.sgml,v 1.1 1998/07/02 02:58:12 jgg Exp $</version>
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+<version>$Id: files.sgml,v 1.2 1998/07/12 02:11:09 jgg Exp $</version>
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<abstract>
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This document describes the complete implementation and format of the
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@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ which indicates a standard debian archive with a dists dir.
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<p>
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<var>uri</var> for the <em>deb</em> type must specify the base of the
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debian distribution. APT will automatically generate the proper longer
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- URIs to get the information it needs. <var>distribution</var> can specify
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+ URIs to get the information it needs. <var>distribution</var> can specify
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an exact path, in this case the components must be omitted and
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<var>distribution</var> must end in a slash.
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@@ -185,17 +185,17 @@ URIs in the source list support a large number of access schemes.
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All permanent information aquired from any of the sources is stored in the
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lists directory. Thus, there must be a way to relate the filename in the
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lists directory to a line in the sourcelist. To simplify things this is
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-done by quoting the URI and treating ='s as quoteable characters and
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-converting / to =. The URI spec says this is done by converting a
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+done by quoting the URI and treating _'s as quoteable characters and
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+converting / to _. The URI spec says this is done by converting a
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sensitive character into %xx where xx is the hexadecimal representation
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from the ascii character set. Examples:
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<example>
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http://www.debian.org/archive/dists/stable/binary-i386/Packages
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-/var/state/apt/lists/www.debian.org=archive=dists=stable=binary-i386=Packages
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+/var/state/apt/lists/www.debian.org_archive_dists_stable_binary-i386_Packages
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cdrom:Debian 1.3/debian/Packages
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-/var/state/apt/info/Debian%201.3=debian=Packages
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+/var/state/apt/info/Debian%201.3_debian_Packages
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</example>
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<p>
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<p>
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The interface is simple, the program will be given a list
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-of URIs on the command line. The URIs will be in pairs, the first
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+of URIs on the command line. The URIs will be a pairs of strings, the first
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being the actual URI and the second being the filename to write the data to.
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The current directory will be set properly by APT and it is
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expected the method will put files relative to the current directory.
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