germinate does not support multiple repositories on the same host

[Alexandros Frantzis]

Binary package hint: germinate

germinate supports multiple repositories (eg in archive_base/default) but when repositories are on the same host only the first one of them is processed.

For example:

archive_base/default: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/,http://ppa.launchpad.net/linaro-maintainers/overlay/ubuntu/,http://ppa.launchpad.net/asac/armel1/ubuntu/,http://ppa.launchpad.net/tom-gall/ui-alip/ubuntu/

will only fetch packages from the http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ and http://ppa.launchpad.net/linaro-maintainers/overlay/ubuntu/ repositories and ignore the last two.

This happens because the downloaded apt tag file name includes only the host portion of the repository URL, so when germinate processes the last two URLs it thinks it has already downloaded the tag files for them.

The attached patch fixes this issue by including the complete repository URL in the saved tag file name.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This patch will break Launchpad. We need to future-proof that first.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Specifically, the problem with Launchpad is that it writes to archive.ubuntu.com_* files in cron.germinate. These files aren't part of germinate's documented interface, so it should be taking a different approach. I'll propose a branch for merging shortly.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r12023 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/12023>.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Colin has done testing of this on dogfood before it landed.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

This is fixed in Germinate v1.27

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

germinate (1.27) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Alexandros Frantzis ]
  * Change local tag file name format to permit multiple repositories on the
    same host (LP: #634831).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:32:12 +0100