Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?

[Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@polydistortion.net>]

Brian May wrote :

> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@polydistortion.net> writes:
> 
>     Andrew> Pardon my ineptitude, but I'm trying to work out the
>     Andrew> process of making a little test package directory to
>     Andrew> chuck into apt's sources.list, and I'm unsure how one
>     Andrew> goes about making the Packages, Packages.gz, Release
>     Andrew> (etc.) files that need to live in there along with the
>     Andrew> actual package files themselves.
> 
> It depends what, exactly, you are after.

dpkg-scanpackages was it.  I missed it when I did a "man -k Packages".

Thanks for all the (off-list) replies.

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