dpkg-repack question
Hi,
Dpkg-repack creates a .deb out of an already installed package.
So I wrote a program to do a dpkg -l &>file and with file as input call
dpkg-repack for each package in file.
The result is a file with all the installed packages as .debs.
So you would think that if you reinstalled the whole system with that
file as /var/cache/apt/archives that he would never need another source
for a package.
Wrong! Apt-get starts merrily downloading and ignores the contents of
/var/cache/apt/archives.
What's wrong with the .deb that dpkg-repack creates?
Potentially this is great because now I have to carry
/var/cache/apt/archives around all the time when I reinstall new systems
and if dpkg-repack would work as advertised (I think ;-) ) then I would
not have to!
H
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