Re: Creating a Packages and Sources file.

[Chris Danis <screechco@home.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 24 May 2001, "Viral" == Viral wrote:

  Viral> If I have uploaded experimental pacakages to my homepage, how do I
  Viral> make the required Packages and Sources files so that the packages
  Viral> can be used with apt-get ?

Assuming you have apt >> 0.5.0, man apt-ftparchive. ftparchive is pretty 
easy to use IMO.

Otherwise, you'll have to use dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources (from 
the dpkg-dev package). Both, of course, have manpages as well ;)

NB: You don't really need your own override file; both will work fine 
without one. Even though dpkg-scan* asks for one on the command line, you 
can just pass it /dev/null :)

Of course, feel free to ask if you run into trouble or anything

-chris
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