This one time, at band camp, Joe Emenaker said:
> I've got a whole bunch of machines that maintain at school and home and I've also got a laptop. Sometimes, there will be some software that I want to install on many/most of them and, due to licensing restrictions, they don't exist on the normal Debian mirrors. Two examples of this are the Java JDK 1.4 and also the JBuilder IDE.
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> I could go through the normal install program for these programs, but:
> 1 - It requires me to download the install progs to each machine
> 2 - It requires me to go through interactive installs on each machine
> 3 - It doesn't lend itself well to clean uninstalls
> 4 - Many of these programs install junk I don't want (like the JDK installing the full source files, or JBuilder install its own JDK)
>
> What would be much nicer, of course, is if I could install the program via the "licensed" install method and then reconfigure it to my needs, toss out the junk, and then make a DEB package of just that. Then, I could put it on one of my web servers, point all of my sources.list files at that, and then just use apt on all of the other machines.
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> Now, I've figured out how to get debhelper's dh_builddeb to make a usable deb package that installs, uninstalls, upgrades, etc. Works great. I've also set up a spot on a web server that I can point apt at then my packages show up in dselect, et. al.
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> What I'm trying to do now is automate the process of generating the Packages.gz file automatically from the "control" files contained within the individual packages. In other words, I want to be able to upload some new or updated deb's to my web server, then run some command that automatically updates Packages.gz.
>
> Anybody know, offhand, what does that?
>
> - Joe
dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources for Packages.gz and Sources.gz, repectively.
Steve
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