Acquire Debian Packages by Hash

JFrog Artifactory Documentation

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Artifactory supports the acquire-by-hash functionality of APT clients for Debian repositories laid out using the Automatic architecture (Trivial architecture is not supported for acquiring packages by hash). This feature is supported by two system properties:Artifactory Configuration Files

Parameter

Description

artifactory.debian.use.acquire.byhash

[default: true]

When true, the value of acquire-by-hash in Debian release files is set to true allowing APT clients to access Debian packages by their checksums (MD5, SHA1, SHA256). To allow this, Artifactory will add the "by-hash" layout to all Debian repositories

artifactory.debian.packages.byhash.history.cycles.to.Keep

[default: 3]

Specifies the number of cycles of package file history to save when acquire-by-hash is enabled