Re: Setting up an apt server/buildd
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:22:51AM +1200, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> I'm sure this has been done by someone else, but I can't find a HOWTO
> anywhere.
>
> How do I set up an apt server? I'm pretty sure this just involves creating a
> Packages.gz file, but cat *.changes doesn't quite give the right format
> (extra PGP signatures). Is there a fairly automated way of setting this up?
As someone else mentioned, dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources (in the
dpkg-dev package) are the usual way, but recent versions of apt include a tool
called apt-ftparchive (in the apt-utils package) which gives a higher-level
interface to these tools, which might make things easier.
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- mdz
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