Re: Outside of Debian (Re: Package splitting and upgrades)
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 02:17:38 -0400
"Lex Spoon" <lex@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> The tools support is very limited. dpkg-scanpackages and
> dpkg-scansources are okay, but they, too, took some fiddling: you have
> to redirect the output to the correct filenames yourself, and you have
> to combine the -all package lists into each of your
> architecture-specific lists manually, for some reason. Plus you have to
> arrange for them to run in each directory. Why isn't there some sort of
> script around that will automatically update all the package files?
I have a script which does:
dpkg-scanpackages . . | tee Packages | gzip -9 > Packages.gz
dpkg-scansources . . | tee Sources | gzip -9 > Sources.gz
Which seems to work fine. I don't know what kind of complexities you
have found.
Would adding examples to dpkg-scan* manpages have helped you
at all?
regards,
junichi
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