Re: A few problems with incuding local packages
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 05:35:48PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> 2. The $PREFIX.generate-binary-debian-installer file created for
> a local instance of the debian installer is bogus as it lacks
> the FileList line.
>
> This means that the resulting packages file will be empty
> and as a result local .udebs will be not be able to be found
> by debian-installer, even though they are present on the CD.
>
> The attached patch, debian-cd-scanpackages_local.patch,
> resolves this problem.
Even if you do this, udpkg is not capable of merging two Packages files,
so it won't actually work properly. I had to hack tools/scanpackages to
append all the files listed in the local section to the main filelist
instead, thus effectively merging the Packages files. This works but is
hacky.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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