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Servers supporting Acquire-By-Hash may break verbatim publications

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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40/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start with the verbatim publisher and the sync handling for Debian Acquire-By-Hash files, then read the Debian Repository Format references linked in the issue. Check how the same files are represented under their hashed paths and how relative_path affects them; done means a verbatim publication includes the required package-index by-hash locations without breaking existing paths.

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Description

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Author: @quba42 (quba42)

Redmine Issue: 7819, https://pulp.plan.io/issues/7819


If a server supports Acquire-By-Hash (in a Release file), the verbatim publisher will still claim to do so (since it will republish the Release file verbatim). However, the verbatim publisher will not publish the Acquire-By-Hash locations for package indecies, since we do not sync them.

This should be easy to fix, if we add the Acquire-By-Hash to our sync. Note that this will be the same files under a different path which probably relates to the whole relative_path corner case problem? (I have forgotten what exactly the latest state of that problem/discussion was).

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