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Re: r30146 - trunk/installer/build



Frans Pop wrote:
> Modified: trunk/installer/build/TODO
> ==============================================================================
> --- trunk/installer/build/TODO	(original)
> +++ trunk/installer/build/TODO	Tue Aug 23 16:49:27 2005
> @@ -14,9 +14,13 @@
>  * Convert the driver floppies to use FAT filesystem, not ext2, on i386.
>    Makes it easier for third parties to throw additional udebs on.
>  * Cache the upxed kernel, to avoid re-upxing it over and over.
> -* The localudebs stuff is a hack, and would be batter handled by using
> +* The localudebs stuff is a hack, and would be better handled by using
>    apt-ftparchive to set up an apt repository based on files in localudebs,
>    and let apt know about it by adding that to sources.list.udeb. Then the
>    ugly caveat in README could be removed. In fact, this was done once (svn
>    r26866), but secure apt broke it by requring gpg signatures, which would
>    e very hard to automate for this.
> +  An alternative for apt-ftparchive is to use dpkg-scanpackages:
> +  dpkg-scanpackages -u localudebs /dev/null | gzip >localudebs/Packages.gz
> +  The following line in sources.list.udeb will then work:
> +  deb file:<full path to installer/build/> localudebs/

Afaik this will not work with signed apt, you'll still get prompts about
missing signatures for your local apt repository.

-- 
see shy jo

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