Re: Generating pkglist

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:05:35AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:29:03AM -0400, Richard Lemay wrote:
> > ls $1 > $1/list
> > dpkg-scanpackages $1 $1/list > $1/Packages
> > rm $1/list
> 
> # cd archive
> # ls $1 |sed '_.*$/option AAA/' >overide
> # dpkg-scanpackages . overide > Packages

You rarely need an override file - just using /dev/null as the second
argument to dpkg-scanpackages is usually good enough.

Alternatively, install apt-utils and try apt-ftparchive.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]