W: Conflicting distribution: http://reposerver wheezy/updates Release (expected wheezy but got wheezy/updates)

[erickeller]

Hi Andrey,

After mirroring security.debian.org in aptly, I get the following Warning:

sudo apt-get update
...
W: Conflicting distribution: http://reposerver wheezy/updates Release (expected wheezy but got wheezy/updates)

the sources.list looks like:

deb http://reposerver:8080/debian/daily wheezy main
deb http://reposerver:8080/debian/daily wheezy/updates main

the command I used to create the wheezy/update:

aptly -config=/home/repo/.aptly.conf -architectures=amd64,i386 mirror create wheezy-security-archive http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

do you have an idea why this warning is shown?

Regards

[smira]

@erickeller, for me to reproduce the issue, what commands have you used to publish the mirror?

[erickeller]

@smira here are the missing commands

snapshot:

aptly -config=/home/repo/.aptly.conf snapshot create daily-wheezy-security-archive from mirror wheezy-security-archive

publish:

aptly -config=/home/repo/.aptly.conf publish snapshot daily-wheezy-security-archive debian/daily

publish list:

aptly publish list
...
* debian/daily/wheezy/updates [amd64, i386] publishes {main: [daily-wheezy-security-archive]: Snapshot from mirror [wheezy-security-archive]: http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates [src]}

Hope this helps

[smira]

The problem here is that aptly actually doesn't support publishing distributions like wheezy/updates (with slash in distribution name). I believe we might need a fix here.

[smira]

The warning from apt should be harmless. Now aptly would auto-replace wheezy/updates with wheezy-updates to avoid such issues.

[erickeller]

Hi Andrey,

auto-replacing / with - does fix the problem (escaping the / would not be possible?). But It would have been nice to use the same patter as debian security repository:

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

so we can switch from official repository to aplty reposiotry back and forth only by switching the URL without modifying the distribution.

Best regards

[smira]

I've created new issue #115 to track adding support for '/' in distribution names, because that would be out of scope of 0.8 release. Thanks!