> Od: Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> > > > > That is absolutely what I was looking for ... http://wiki.debian.org/PbuilderTricks Sorry , but one think I don't understand: HOOKDIR="/path/to/hook/dir" # put a file like D05deps to your $HOOKDIR, make it executable and put this in there: (cd /path/to/the/dir/deps; apt-ftparchive packages . > Packages) apt-get update Can you explain please? mira