Question about using dpkg-deb:
I am trying to understand how to use dpkg-deb from reading the man page.
I've been downloading deb packages and installing them on my system
using aptitude and apt-get. Now I would like to burn a CD that contains
a usable debian archive of these packages. I think I should be able to
do this using
dpkg-deb -b <directory> <archive>
but I can't find a plausible candidate for <directory>. It should, I
think, be somewhere in /var , but I don't find a directory that has
a " DEBIAN subdirectory ". In a standard sarge installation, what is
the right string to use for <directory>?
I suppose <archive> is the path to an empty directory that I wish to
populate with the reconstructed debs, correct?
TIA
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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