Building smaller package files on local mirrors (was: Bloated package file)
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:16:21 -0600, "Adam Majer"
<adamm@galacticasoftware.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:49:26PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Are scripts available that build the necessary Packages.gz if a
>> complete package pool and a list of packages needed is available?
>
>Yes, dpkg-scanpackages should do the trick.
dpkg-scanpackages scans complete subtrees. I'd end up with a package
file including the whole package pool. Or at least that is what I read
in the man page.
Greetings
Marc
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