Re: How can I make a local package repository available to apt?

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Subject: Re: How can I make a local package repository available to apt?
From: Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:36:58 +0100
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Hello

Daniel Haude (<musbur@web.de>) wrote:

> I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not
> organized in any way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make
> apt recognize  this repository? I tried adding
>  
> deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/
>  
> to the apt-sources file, but of course apt balks at this as it is
> "malformed" because it doesn't have the sections listed after the
> directory. The .debs come from all sorts of sections of the official 
> debian distro. How can I make this work? 

Check apt-ftparchive. If you want to move your files into a hierarchy
like on the Debian servers, try apt-move.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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