Hello fsmithred,

On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:51:21 -0400
fsmithred via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> On 10/26/19 1:49 AM, Pontus Goffe via Dng wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2019-10-26 02:27, s@po wrote:
> >> You see here the '2.0' String, and it comes from the funtion
> >> guess_release_from_apt().. like you can see above..
> >> The guess_release_from_apt() function:
> >>      228 def guess_release_from_apt(origin='Devuan', component='main',
> >>      229                            ignoresuites=('experimental'),
> >>      230                            label='Devuan',
> >>      231                            alternate_olabels={'Devuan
> >> Ports':'packages.devuan.org'}):
> >>      232     releases = parse_apt_policy()
> >>      233
> >>      234     if not releases:
> >>      235         return None
> >>      236
> >>      237     # We only care about the specified origin, component, and
> >> label
> >>      238     releases = [x for x in releases if (
> >>      239         x[1].get('origin', '') == origin and
> >>      240         x[1].get('component', '') == component and
> >>      241         x[1].get('label', '') == label) or (
> >>      242         x[1].get('origin', '') in alternate_olabels and
> >>      243         x[1].get('label', '') ==
> >> alternate_olabels.get(x[1].get('origin', '')))]
> >>      244
> >>      245     # Check again to make sure we didn't wipe out all of the
> >> releases
> >>      246     if not releases:
> >>      247         return None
> >>      248
> >>      249     releases.sort(key=lambda tuple: tuple[0],reverse=True)
> >>      250
> >>      251     # We've sorted the list by descending priority, so the
> >> first entry should
> >>      252     # be the "main" release in use on the system
> >>      253
> >>      254     max_priority = releases[0][0]
> >>      255     releases = [x for x in releases if x[0] == max_priority]
> >>      256     releases.sort(key=release_index)
> >>      257
> >>      258     return releases[0][1]
> >>
> >> I am afraid that this info, you already know..
> >> I am not a python guy( I love the Lua simplicity way :) ), I can't
> >> help.. :(
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> tux
> >
> > Who is a python guy?
> >
> > parse_apt_policy executes 'apt-cache policy' and parses
> > (parse_policy_line) the output for lines beginning with release matching
> > o=Devuan and c=main
> >
> > longnames = {'v' : 'version', 'o': 'origin', 'a': 'suite', 'c' :
> > 'component', 'l': 'label'}
> >
> > In my case that is
> >
> >  500 http://se.deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 Packages
> >      release v=2.0,o=Devuan,a=stable,n=ascii,l=Devuan,c=main,b=amd64
> >      origin se.deb.devuan.org
> > //PG
> >
>
>
> Where does 'apt-cache policy' get the version number? Oh, maybe it reads
> it from the repo. I see that we have:
>
> pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/1.0
> pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/2.0
> pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/3.0
>
> and debian has:
>
> debian/dists/Debian8.11
> debian/dists/Debian9.11
> debian/dists/Debian10.1
>
> Maybe those directory names are supposed to be changed when there's a
> point release.
>

It could be..
Another place, I searched for and makes sense to me:
http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/ascii/Release

Best Regards,
--
tux <tuxd3v@???>