Re: Local packages

[Petro <petro@auctionwatch.com>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:19:15PM +0300, Sergey Lapin wrote:
> Hello, all!!!
> 
> I have big collection of self-made packages, which I would like to 
> distribute through my network via usual apt-get methods while allowing 
> them to update from Debian sites. Connection is only by http,
> so I have to install http server somewhere. Could you tell me, how I 
> could produce file tree as automajically as I can, and to simplify 
> adding packajes to the tree in future? System is 'stable'.

    Here's what I did to solve the same problem.

    added a line like:
    deb ftp://package-server/misc-packages packages aw

    to /etc/apt/sources.list on all the machines. 

    Then I created a directory structure like:
    -mirrors
      |_misc-packages
         |_apt-ftparchive.conf                (file)
         |_override                           (dir)
         |  |_override                        (file)
         |_dists                              (dir) 
            |_packages                        (dir)
               |_aw                           (dir)
                 |_binary-i386                (dir)
                   |_host                     (dir)
                   |_kernel                   (dir)
                   |_etc.                     (dir)

    Then I found a apt-ftparchive.conf file, and modified it for my
machine:

// $Id: apt.conf,v 1.43 1999/12/06 02:19:38 jgg Exp $
/* This file is a sample configuration file with a few harmless sample 
   options.   
*/

Dir 
{
        //Standard directories needed to locate files during generation
        //process
  ArchiveDir "/export/mirror/misc-packages/packages/aw/";
  OverrideDir "/export/mirror/misc-packages/override/";
  CacheDir "/export/mirror/db-cache/misc-packages/";
};

Default
{
        Packages::Compress ". gzip";
        FileMode 0664;
}

Tree "dists/packages"
{
        Sections "aw";
        Architectures "i386";
        BinOverrride "override";
}

Then I created the overrides file:
host    required        base
mysql-3.23.43-pc-linux-gnu      optional        misc
syncup  recommended     base
php4-cgi        optional        web
php4-curl       optional        web
php4-dev        optional        web
php4-domxml     optional        web
php4-gd optional        web
php4-imap       optional        web
php4-ldap       optional        web
php4-mcal       optional        web
php4-mcrypt     optional        web
php4-mhash      optional        web
php4-mysql      optional        web
php4-pear       optional        web
php4-sablot     optional        web
php4-snmp       optional        web
php4-sybase     optional        web


Then I wrote this script:

#!/bin/sh

#This is the directory where we will store customized and
non-distribution 
#packages: 

MISC_DIR='/export/mirror/misc-packages/'
override='/export/mirror/misc-packages/override/override'
basedir='dists/packages/aw/binary-i386'
cd $MISC_DIR;

apt-ftparchive packages ./$basedir  $override 'packages/aw/binary-i386' > \
 ./$basedir/Packages
gzip -c ./$basedir/Packages > ./$basedir/Packages.gz


So then when I compile a new package (usually a new kernel) I stick it
in <some_path>/mirror/misc-packages/dists/packages/aw/binary-i386/kernel

and run that script (called make_packages_list.sh) and it creates the
Packages and Packages.gz files in binary-i386. 
 
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