Re: A few problems with incuding local packages

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

The CD should be small enough to just scan all debs/udebs on it and
create a full Packages file for it. No mergeing, just recreate.

MfG
        Goswin