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authorJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2018-01-16 16:53:46 +0100
committerJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2018-01-17 11:52:38 +0100
commit698f9e3f9877be2aa181d6e40d3dc5c41ea318b7 (patch)
treeafcd1b5ee856242afe3de70692e358a4a6e68781 /doc
parentca2fcc639c7363a04998f650b96573d806b32dd2 (diff)
Introduce inrelease-path option for sources.list
Allow specifying an alternative path to the InRelease file, so you can have multiple versions of a repository, for example. Enabling this option disables fallback to Release and Release.gpg, so setting it to InRelease can be used to ensure that only that will be tried. We add two test cases: One for checking that it works, and another for checking that the fallback does not happen. Closes: #886745
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diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
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--- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml
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@@ -343,6 +343,15 @@ deb-src [ option1=value1 option2=value2 ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [.
default.
</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><option>InRelease-Path</option> (<option>inrelease-path</option>)
+ determines the path to the InRelease file, relative
+ to the normal position of an <filename>InRelease</filename> file.
+ By default, this option is unset and APT will try to fetch an <filename>InRelease</filename>
+ or, if that fails, a <filename>Release</filename> file and its associated <filename>Release.gpg</filename> file. By setting this option,
+ the specified path will be tried instead of the InRelease file,
+ and the fallback to <filename>Release</filename> files will be disabled.
+ </para></listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</para>