Debian bug report logs - #1511
Packages vs. packages for ms-dos compatability

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Subject: Re: Bug#1511: Packages vs. packages for ms-dos compatability

I just fixed this.

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From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Bug#1511: Packages vs. packages for ms-dos compatability
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I wrote, some time ago, in response to a bug report:
> Bill Mitchell writes ("Bug#1511: Packages vs. packages for ms-dos compatability"):
> > PACKAGE: dpkg (and the ftp site)
> > 
> > The "Packages" and "Packages.gz" files do not have ms-dos
> > compatible filenames.  Depending on the tools used, manipulating
> > these files on, MSDOS filesystems can be a problem.
> > 
> > I suggest that these files be renamed to "packages" and "packages.gz",
> > respectively.  they should be placed on the ftp site with these
> > ms-dos compatible names.  dselect should probably look for the files
> > first under these names and, if that fails, under their current
> > names.
> 
> The dselect installation method scripts already look for the
> lowercase versions.
> 
> I suggest that these files only be renamed in the ms-dos sections.
> Having them start with a capital P is important so that they sort
> before the packages files or directories with which they share the
> directory.
> 
> Ian M, if you're editing mkpackages anyway go ahead and change this;
> otherwise I can do it.  Presumably mkpackages will need changing to
> cope with the new FTP site organisation, anyway.  Let me know.

Has this been changed yet ?  I'm going to reassign this bug to
(ftp.debian.org).

Ian.

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From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Bug#1511: Packages vs. packages for ms-dos compatability

Bill Mitchell writes ("Bug#1511: Packages vs. packages for ms-dos compatability"):
> PACKAGE: dpkg (and the ftp site)
> 
> The "Packages" and "Packages.gz" files do not have ms-dos
> compatible filenames.  Depending on the tools used, manipulating
> these files on, MSDOS filesystems can be a problem.
> 
> I suggest that these files be renamed to "packages" and "packages.gz",
> respectively.  they should be placed on the ftp site with these
> ms-dos compatible names.  dselect should probably look for the files
> first under these names and, if that fails, under their current
> names.

The dselect installation method scripts already look for the
lowercase versions.

I suggest that these files only be renamed in the ms-dos sections.
Having them start with a capital P is important so that they sort
before the packages files or directories with which they share the
directory.

Ian M, if you're editing mkpackages anyway go ahead and change this;
otherwise I can do it.  Presumably mkpackages will need changing to
cope with the new FTP site organisation, anyway.  Let me know.

Ian.

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From: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
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Subject: Packages vs. packages for ms-dos compatability

PACKAGE:  dpkg (and the ftp site)

The "Packages" and "Packages.gz" files do not have ms-dos
compatible filenames.  Depending on the tools used, manipulating
these files on, MSDOS filesystems can be a problem.

I suggest that these files be renamed to "packages" and "packages.gz",
respectively.  they should be placed on the ftp site with these
ms-dos compatible names.  dselect should probably look for the files
first under these names and, if that fails, under their current
names.

Files intended to have ms-dos compatible filenames should have names
with an 8.3 format, and using only the chars [a-z0-9] and '-', '_',
and possibly a few other non-alpha chars.

Two things known to cause problems are names exceeding 8.3 limits
and names having uppercase characters.