Re: unofficial apt source setup

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 09:43:38PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> * mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu <mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu> [011007 19:44]:
> > Read about the 'apt-ftparchive' program, specifically the 'packages' and 
> > 'sources' options to it.
> 
> Or, if your like me and a glutton for punishment, try using
> dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources by hand.

been there, done that, and nothing will create the Release file that can
be found on the debian archives.

it seems as if it is not required, but i dislike the warning messages
that apt-get update gives me.

does anyone know how to create a proper Release file?

-john