Re: local Packages on my server

[R Garth Wood <rgwood@peace.netnation.com>]

On Mon, 3 May 1999, Betoes wrote:

> How can we generate the Packages.gz based on our ftp server?

First create a override file(you don't really need it IMHO but
dpkg-scanpackages does):

### file: overrides
apt optional utils
<progname> optional <section>
...

now create Packages files:
cd /ftp_root/dists/my_dist/main && dpkg-scanpackages binary-$ARCH \
	overrides dists/my_dist/main > binary-$ARCH/Packages

> We generated the tree directory of our packages, and they are placed in:
> 
> /debian/dists/stable/local/binary-i386/tools/*.deb
> 
> Is the generation of Packages.gz enough to use apt on a client machine?

Yes.

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