Re: local packages
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> I need to make a debian cd that has some locally built packages on it.
> It If use $MIRROR/dists/$CODENAME/local/binary-$ARCH/<section> like the
> debian-cd docs tell me to, will the local packages be in the Packages
> files and installable by apt?
>
I have found that if the "local" directory is placed with contrib, main
etc and has the same file structure as main (but not that of non-US) then
is goes onto the CD and is recognised by apt-cdrom when the CDs are
scanned. A symlink works. For some reason I have not been able to get my
local sources onto the CD, but that does not worry me too much.
An override-local file is needed as is a properly constructed Packages
file built with dpkg-scanpackages.
Phil.
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