Re: Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files
On Tuesday 27 March 2001 23:15, Colin Watson wrote:
<snip>
> Those are the only tools I know of that will create the Packages
> file. Note that you need to gzip the Packages file if you use
> dpkg-scanpackages; I think apt-ftparchive will do that for you.
I don't think so. All the programs in my system are installed via
apt-get. For every undebianized source I do deb-make, etc., and stash
the result into my "private" deb hoard. (I recently found out that
my structure is unnecessarily elaborate It appears that we really
don't need those main/binary-i386 stuff.)
debian:~$ file /ephemeroot/dists/private/main/binary-i386/Packages
/ephemeroot/dists/private/main/binary-i386/Packages: ASCII English
text, with very long lines
debian:~$ grep "ephemeroot" /etc/apt/sources.list
deb file:/ephemeroot private main
deb file:/ephemeroot/http/www.debian.or.jp/~kitame/mozilla ./
debian:~$ su
Password:
debian:/home/penguin# apt-get update
Ign file: private/main Release
Ign file: ./ Release
Ign file: woody/main Release
Ign file: woody/main Release
Ign file: sid/main Release
Ign file: woody/non-US/main Release
Ign file: woody/non-US/main Release
Ign file: sid/non-US/main Release
Ign file: stable/updates/main Release
Ign file: woody/main Release
Ign file: woody/main Release
Ign file: potato/non-free Release
Ign file: potato/contrib Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
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