The added "aptly publish repo" option "-access-by-hash" publishes
the index files (Packages*, Sources*) also as hardlinked hashes.
Example:
/dists/yakkety/main/binary-amd64/by-hash/SHA512/31833ec39acc...
The Release files indicate this with the option "Acquire-By-Hash: yes"
This is used by apt >= 1.2.0 and prevents the "Hash sum mismatch" race
condition between a server side "aptly publish repo" and "apt-get update"
on a client.
See: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/no-more-hash-sum-mismatch-errors.html
This implementation uses symlinks in the by-hash/*/ directory for keeping
only two versions of the index files and deleting older files
automatically.
Note: this only works with aptly.FileSystemPublishedStorage
Closes: #536
Signed-off-by: André Roth <neolynx@gmail.com>
André Roth
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