Re: Creating a Packages and Sources file.

[Viral <viral@debian.org>]

I'd like to thank everyone for responding to my question.
I used dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources :)

Thanks,

viral

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:41:38AM -0400, Chris Danis wrote:
> 
> >>>>> 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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