Re: apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

manegold@uni-trier.de wrote:
>Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere on a
>system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have
>Packages.gz files (how are those created anyhow?).

You need a Packages.gz file. They're not hard to create, though.
dpkg-scanpackages produces Packages files given an archive (it doesn't
necessarily have to be organized the same way as the Debian archive) and
an "override file" stating sections and priorities; you then gzip the
output. dpkg-scansources does a similar thing for source archives.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]