Re: dselect and non-standard package directories

[Joost Kooij <kooij@mpn.cp.philips.com>]

On 23 Oct 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:

> Okay, besides "stable contrib non-free local" there is also:
>  non-US
>  project/experimental
>  project/misc
>  project/orphaned
>  project/other_kernels
> 
> This is a CD from JFL, a book store in Germany.
>  (<a href="http://www.lob.de";>Lehmanns Online Bookshop</a>)
> 
> So, I guess you don't know of a method to tell dselect to search
> through those directories, too, right?  Could I manually cat the
> Packages file into the available file???

The packages file must have the correct "Filename: " entry for each
package it lists for dselect to be able to use it. If it has that
correctly, then yes, you can use `dpkg --merge-available` ( don't clear
the available list in dselect after that. )

You can also build a Packages file yourself with dpkg-scanpackages, but
you need an overridefile. I doubt that one is on the cd, but they're easy
to build for yourself. Just take a peek in the examples in the
/debian/indices directory.

Cheers,


Joost


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