Re: Tools to maintain my own set of homebrewed deb's?

[Jason Pepas <j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu>]

> 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 ./ /dev/null > Packages
gzip Packages

you could set up a cronjob to make a new Packages.gz file each night

is that what you were asking?

-jason pepas