Re: Trying to create a deb line - why doesn't it work?
Marc Martinez wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:03:03PM +0000, Thom May wrote:
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure apt looks for
>> Packages.gz, and fails if it can't find it...
>
>for network uri's that is definitely the case, for local file uri's
>it'll use an uncompressed Packages file. the scripts I use for my
>local repositories at the house generate both versions so all boxes
>can load them properly.
I tried Packages.gz first, and uncompressed it when that didn't work.
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