Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?
I have a question related to this one as well. Is there an automated tool/method
to generate an override file from a directory of debs? I would prefer to use a
tool to build the bulk of the file initially.
If a tool does not exist, (dpkg-distaddfile is close) and if you (debian
community) believe it would be useful, I could create it.
Let me know, thanks!
Fred.
Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:30:00PM +1000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote:
> > dpkg-scanpackages was it. I missed it when I did a "man -k Packages".
>
> Related to this, I have a question also.
> One friend has a new hard drive and wants to copy his 3 unofficial potato
> CDs into it, and make them aptable. So I copied the CDs on a
> debian/dist/{m,c,n-f,n-u} tree and I guess I only need to run
> dpkg-scanpackages on each directory to generate the Packages files. The
> problem is I don't know which is the overrides file in the CDs. Is it
> necessary?
>
> An example would be the best help.
>
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