Re: debootstrap from parisc-linux.org
Helge Deller wrote:
>
>Sure!
>Yes, just let me know what you want (and commands with which I can do that :-)).
>
>> AFAICT, an InRelease file isn't needed if you have Release and Release.gpg
>> (we do).
>
>Those in the parisc-linux archive are just based on a little (unfinished)
>testing by me. Again, any hints which commands I need to run would be helpful.
>
>> If they are moved under dists/, then that should be enough to get
>> past this roadblock, although I think the Packages file will also need some
>> work (probably regenerating) so that it doesn't include paths relative to
>> the current directory.
>
>This is what I currently do:
>dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null >Packages
>gzip -c9 Packages > Packages.gz
>bzip2 -cz Packages > Packages.bz2
>
>Then in addition I tried (based on info from http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt#How_apt_uses_Release.gpg):
># apt-ftparchive packages . > Packages
>apt-ftparchive release . > Release
># gpg -abs -o Release.gpg Release
>
>Any hints?
If you're not sure what you're doing, reprepro is probably a good tool
to work with - it's designed to take a lot of the hassle out of
managing a Debian archive like this.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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