Re: Really stupid question about apt
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:13:59 -0600, Brad Sims <bmsims1@insightbb.com> said:
> I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). I have at some
> point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. Is there someway of
> re-creating that deb from the existing installed version?
> I presume I am most likely screwed but thought I would ask.
# apt-cache show dpkg-repack
Package: dpkg-repack
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 60
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.22
Depends: perl, dpkg-dev
Filename: pool/main/d/dpkg-repack/dpkg-repack_1.22_all.deb
Size: 11114
MD5sum: d31a6f932ebb97334f81b40a55c5bb01
Description: puts an unpacked .deb file back together
dpkg-repack creates a .deb file out of a debian package that has already
been installed. If any changes have been made to the package while it was
unpacked (ie, files in /etc were modified), the new package will inherit
the changes.
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This utility can make it easy to copy packages from one computer to another,
or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but no longer
available elsewhere, or to store the current state of a package before you
upgrade it.
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