Re: Debian Archive Mgmt

[Bart-Jan Vrielink <bartjan@vrielink.net>]

On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 07:21, jose@iteso.mx wrote:

>    Im almost sure there is a script/program somewhere there that creates
>    Packages.gz and Release files for a given set of .debs in order to use
>    them in apt/sources.list  
> 
>    My current script does 
>    
>    dpkg --info |grep relevant fields
>    calculate remaining fields (filename,size, md5 etc.)>> Packages
> 
>    And somewhat does create a 'normal' Packages file, with some fields swapped
>    in a different order than in a debian.org packages, but apt-get update
>    does not like my Packages file, is states that it can't parse it and quits.

Why not use dpkg-scanpackages ??

apt-get install dpkg-dev to get dpkg-scanpackages.

-- 
Tot ziens,

Bart-Jan