#155500 apt-ftparchive: please consider allowing globbing in FileList files

Package:
apt-utils
Source:
apt
Description:
package management related utility programs
Submitter:
Marc Haber
Date:
2005-07-18 03:06:42 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#155500#5
Date:
2002-08-05 11:23:51 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

I am maintaining an internal, aptable archive that has virus scanner
data files. These files are automatically generated on a nightly
basis, and put in a directory in out local package pool on the
distribution server.

Because of the package pool, we need to use the FileList directive to
create the Packages.gz files for our internal distribution. Thus, we
are currently forced to have a script generate the FileList file for
the virus scanner data files.

Please consider adding globbing functionality to apt-ftparchive,
allowing FileLists like:

|[75/565]haber@lurene:~/debian$ cat database/dists/tpl/kav_non-free_binary-i386.list
|tplpool/non-free/kav/kav_3.0.136-1tpl6_i386.deb
|tplpool/non-free/kav-data/kav-data_3.0.*_all.deb

apt-ftparchive currently chokes on that file.

Greetings
Marc