Re: Question about using dpkg-deb:
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 09:35:44PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> 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?
dpkg-deb only makes one deb.
You can't reconstruct packages.
Unless you've used apt-get clean, you'll find the debs you've apt-getted
in /var/cache/apt/archives.
There might be a similar directory for aptitude, but it's more likely
aptitude uses the apt cache.
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