On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Jeroen Dekkers > > | It does also other things, like making distribution creation more > | flexible. I'm thinking of having a some kind of package file for every > | source package. That would include the current information and maybe a > | lot more things like URL of upstream, license, etc. This file would be > | stored in every package pool directory > | (i.e. pool/main/f/foobar/Packages). > | > | Then we create a lot of bigger Packages files, only including the > | packagename, version number and some other things which might be > | useful (but not too much). Those bigger Packages files can be a lot > | more flexible, for example we could have a different Package file for > | different licenses, different upstream projects (gnome, kde, gnu, X, > | etc), different use of machines (server, desktop), etc. > > (I know, old mail, but I am catching up) > > It seems like you want to put the control file outside the deb package > and add more information to it. (And have apt-ftparchive not include > all the information from the control file into the packages file.) > > Is this about correct? Yes, at least adding everything which is now in the normal Packages file. The normal Packages file would just be an index then. I think this is the best way to do the things I want. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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