Re: debootstrap from parisc-linux.org
Hi Steve,
On 04/19/2013 02:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 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.
That's what I was searching for!
Thanks, this looks good.
Initial tests looked promising.
May take some time though, since the package is not yet installed on the parisc-linux server.... :-(
Helge
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