Re: packages

[Nicolas Bertolissio <nico.bertol@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:56:28 Antonio A. Lobato wrote:
> 	If my sources.list has the single line "deb file:/win/ main" , does the
> dpkg find the
> deb files within directorys
>  
> main/binary-i386/editors/ 
> main/binary-i386/x11/ 
> main/binary-i386/libs/ 
> ....
> ....
> ....
> etc
> 
> Or must I have to put all the deb files within "main/binary-i386" and to
> use 
> 
> dpkg -i /win/main/binary-i386/* 
> 
> to install all packges ?  

the path in sources.lists is to dists/<distrib> (<distrib>=potato|woody|sid) so :
directories should be like this
/win/dists/<distrib>/main/...

and your sources.list line :
deb file:/win <distrib> main

Nicolas Bertolissio