Mirror a repository without a "Release" results in 404.

[esse...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I've been trying to mirror Weechats "officially inofficial" debian mirror available at "http://weechat.org/debian" but I end up getting 404 because Aptly expects either a "InRelease" file or "Release" file which is unavailable.

Is there a way getting around having to fetch the Release-file that I miss?

# aptly mirror create weechat http://weechat.org/debian wheezy main
Downloading http://weechat.org/debian/dists/wheezy/InRelease...
Downloading http://weechat.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release...
ERROR: unable to fetch mirror: HTTP code 404 while fetching http://weechat.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release

# aptly mirror create weechat http://weechat.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/ ./
Downloading http://weechat.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/InRelease...
Downloading http://weechat.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Release...
ERROR: unable to fetch mirror: HTTP code 404 while fetching http://weechat.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Release

Thanks in advance!
Linus

[Andrey Smirnov]

Hi Linus,

I have no idea what kind of layout for repository these guys are using :)

There's no Release file there at all.

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[esse...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Do you have a suggestion on how to mirror repositories who looks like this, do I have to make a custom script using rsync or something and then create a local repository with Aptly?

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[Andrey Smirnov]

You can download all packages you need (or download them every day) to some directory, then run 'aptly repo add weechat directory/'. aptly would automatically pick up all downloaded packages and push them to the repo (adding package already present in local repo is no-op).  This would be something like a mirror :)

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[esse...@gmail.com]

I'll try that, thanks! :)

[Serge van Ginderachter]

On 29 March 2015 at 13:14, Andrey Smirnov <smirnov...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have no idea what kind of layout for repository these guys are using :)

I think this is the flat repository format:

https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#Flat_Repository_Format​

which doesn't use a shared 'pool' of packages.

[Andrey Smirnov]

At the same time on their website they provide lines for apt-sources as if it is "regular" repository: https://weechat.org/download/debian/

[Serge van Ginderachter]

On 29 March 2015 at 13:33, Andrey Smirnov <smirnov...@gmail.com> wrote:

At the same time on their website they provide lines for apt-sources as if it is "regular" repository: https://weechat.org/download/debian/

​Well, there is no difference to be expected in the apt-sources syntax​.

Flat repo is what you get by basically just doing a dpkg-scanpackages.

[Andrey Smirnov]

Actually according to https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#Flat_Repository_Format there should be difference:

 https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#Flat_Repository_Format

aptly supports flat format which has Release file.