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Re: Utillity for generating Packages?



On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> And so now I learn about the overrides files ... maintaining a Debian
> tree is sure a lot of work. Looks like I need to start building some
> release maintainance tools. 

If you build your local packages in the "proper" way, you don't need an
override file, /dev/null will be enough. What do I mean? Include Section
and Priority fields *in* the package. (Hint: pass -isp to dpkg-genchanges)
After that, it's easy.


				Marcelo


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