[apt-offline-devel] apt-offline install error: couldn't understand file type ..._Release.gpg

[Gabriel Niebler]

Hi,

first of all, thanks for developing apt-offline. It's a really great,
useful and well thought-out tool and it's already saved me a lot of work.

I'm using apt-offline to administer the software on an LXC container
that has no network configured, but shares a (bind-mounted) directory
with the virtualisation host.
Both the container and the host run Debian stable (jessie).

I've come across one little problem, though:

I can run 'apt-offline set ...' on the container and 'apt-offline get
...' on the host without problems and the latter command will download
all required files to the specified directory:
/srv/lxc/<container>/apt-offline   on the host, which is bind-mounted to
/srv/lxc/<host>/apt-offline   in the container.

Then I run 'apt-offline install ...' in the container and get an error:
# apt-offline install /srv/lxc/<host>/apt-offline/
ERROR: I couldn't understand file type
http.debian.net_debian_dists_jessie_Release.gpg.

Evidently apt-offline doesn't understand or cannot deal with .gpg-files.
I can work around this issue by simply deleting all .gpg-files in that
directory and then 'apt-offline install ...' will run through and a
subsequent apt-get upgrade will also work fine.

Am I doing something wrong? Is this a known issue?

Unfortunately, I cannot acccess the apt-offline issue tracker on alioth.

Best
Gabriel

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