Packages plugin ignores sources from the same URL

[Jeff Strunk <[email protected]…>]

I am using version 1.0.1-1~ppa2~hardy2.

The packages plugin appears to be ignoring APTSource containers if the URL is the same as one it has already seen. I have attached some examples to illustrate this.

The first example is an excerpt from our config.xml. It has 5 APTSource containers with the same URL, but different Versions.

The second attachment shows an ls in the cache directory. It only shows files for the first APTsource container.

In ​IRC, Sol showed me that I could use multiple Version tags in an APTSource container even though Desai says it shouldn't work. This is not valid when different versions of the OS are stored in the same repository. I first discovered this when I had hardy and jaunty versions of packages in a repository.

[Jeff Strunk <…>]

excerpt from Packages/config.xml

[Jeff Strunk <…>]

Directory listing of the Packages cache.

[solj]

I was actually incorrect. It looks like you need separate APTSource entries for each Version. Here is my config for lucid using the same URL, but different Versions:

<Sources>
        <!-- Ubuntu sources -->
                <!-- Stock Lucid sources -->
                <APTSource>
                        <Group>lucid</Group>
                        <URL>http://ftp.ices.utexas.edu/ubuntu</URL>
                        <Version>lucid</Version>
                        <Component>main</Component>
                        <Component>multiverse</Component>
                        <Component>restricted</Component>
                        <Component>universe</Component>
                        <Arch>amd64</Arch>
                </APTSource>
                <APTSource>
                        <Group>lucid</Group>
                        <URL>http://ftp.ices.utexas.edu/ubuntu</URL>
                        <Version>lucid-backports</Version>
                        <Component>main</Component>
                        <Component>multiverse</Component>
                        <Component>restricted</Component>
                        <Component>universe</Component>
                        <Arch>amd64</Arch>
                </APTSource>
                <APTSource>
                        <Group>lucid</Group>
                        <URL>http://ftp.ices.utexas.edu/ubuntu</URL>
                        <Version>lucid-updates</Version>
                        <Component>main</Component>
                        <Component>multiverse</Component>
                        <Component>restricted</Component>
                        <Component>universe</Component>
                        <Arch>amd64</Arch>
                </APTSource>
                <APTSource>
                        <Group>lucid</Group>
                        <URL>http://ftp.ices.utexas.edu/ubuntu</URL>
                        <Version>lucid-security</Version>
                        <Component>main</Component>
                        <Component>multiverse</Component>
                        <Component>restricted</Component>
                        <Component>universe</Component>
                        <Arch>amd64</Arch>
                </APTSource>
                <!-- Custom Lucid sources -->
                <APTSource>
                        <Group>lucid</Group>
                        <URL>http://ftp.ices.utexas.edu/medibuntu</URL>
                        <Version>lucid</Version>
                        <Component>free</Component>
                        <Component>non-free</Component>
                        <Arch>amd64</Arch>
                </APTSource>
                <APTSource>
                        <Group>lucid</Group>
                        <URL>http://ftp.ices.utexas.edu/ubuntu-sysnet</URL>
                        <Version>lucid</Version>
                        <Component>main</Component>
                        <Arch>amd64</Arch>
                </APTSource>
</Sources>

I haven't tried using the same URL for different distros, but it seems like it should work.

[solj]

Fixed by pulling latest Packages.py from trunk.