Re: Setting up an internal mirror with custom debs
Brad wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:10:06PM -0500, Matt Ray wrote:
> > I've setup an internal anonymous FTP mirror for potato, but now I need
> > to add a custom .deb to it. I can't seem to get my sources.list and the
> > location of the .debs to work together.
> >
> [SNIP]
> >
> > but I'm banging my head against a wall. Any suggestions for setting
> > where to place files in an ftp directory?
>
> I'll assume you know how to use dpkg-scanpackages to create a Packages
> file, with the proper paths in the 'Filename:' fields. All you need then
> is to understand how apt interprets sources.list. Back in February i
> wrote up an explanation, check
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0002/msg02422.html
>
> Hope this helps!
>
That kinda helped, got me on the right path at least. Everything was
working just fine, the real problem was that I didn't realize the
Packages file had to be gzip'ed (Packages.gz). This was not the case
when I used the Packages file off of a floppy, I'm not really sure why
this is inconsistent between transfer methods and I don't recall seeing
it officially documented.
--
Matthew H. Ray
Programmer, Coral Technologies, Inc.
mray@coral-tech.com
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