apt munging filenames

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 12:41 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 14:01 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
> > When I used apt-get in download-only mode, the filenames are getting
> > munged, but it's wierd and moderately inconsistent.  It doesn't really
> > impact the installation of the files, but it doesn't look correct, ie:
> > 
> > zlib1_1.2.3-5493avx_x86%5f64.rpm
> > 
> > that should be:
> > 
> > zlib1-1.2.3-5493avx.x86_64.rpm
> > 
> > Any ideas why it would be doing that?  It's doing it for everything I
> > download with apt-get install -d foo.
> 
> It munges the filenames to avoid clashes from different repositories.
> Yes it's hideously ugly and yet again something we intend to fix sooner
> or later.

It was rather sooner than later this time - just committed to svn.
There's now a new config option acquire::munge-filenames which can be
used to revert to the old behavior if somebody happens to be in love
with ugly filenames :) 

	- Panu -