Re: Local non-mirror debian archive

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

John Griffiths <john@capmon.com> wrote:
>At 11:34 PM 6/12/01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>>Dave Sherohman wrote:
>>> Does any tool currently exist that will create an archive of this sort
>>> for me?  If not, where can I find documentation on setting it up manually?
>>
>>apt-ftparchive(1) or dpkg-scanpackages(8), take your pick.
>>
>>You really need to do something about your broken mailer, btw:
>
>walrus:/home/john# apt-cache show apt-ftparchive
>W: Unable to locate package apt-ftparchive
>walrus:/home/john# man apt-ftparchive
>No manual entry for apt-ftparchive
>walrus:/home/john# apt-cache search apt-ftparchive
>walrus:/home/john#
>
>what's apt-ftparchive? where do we get it?

After the above, the next thing to do is check packages.debian.org.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]