Re: In bed with Apt

[Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>]

Marant Jerome <jerome_marant@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Why not giving a simple directory where ou can find debs and
> Packages.gz and that's it ?

I don't know, what you don't do so. I do so :-)

Simply put your deb files into /foo/bar and create the Packages file
like this:

$ dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -c | Packages.gz

Then add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb file:/foo/bar ./

That's all.

> Why keeping <dir>/dists/stable/<component>/binanary-<arch>/ .

You don't have to do this. It's an additional feature, if you have
many deb files for many architectures in many directories.

But nobody obliges you to use this feature.

Tschoeeee

        Roland

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