apt munging filenames

[Vincent Danen]

* Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> [2006-05-28 15:00:01 +0300]:

> > > 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 :) 

That sounds fantastic, thank you.  I thought something was going
wrong... I didn't know that was the correct behaviour.. =)

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