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Re: Generating 'Packages' file ?



Johannes Plass <plass@dipmza.physik.uni-mainz.de> writes:

> Is it possible to automatically generate the 'Packages' file for a
> directory containing (local) Debian packages ?

Yes, dpkg-scanpackages(8) is the command to create Packages files.  It
has a thorough man page.  You may need to install dpkg and dpkg-dev
from the unstable tree, as I believe the man page was added fairly
recently.


Guy

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