Re: 'usual' problem with diff paths in Packages vs. hdd layout
Hi,
>>"Peter" == Peter Gervai <grin@tolna.net> writes:
Peter> The problem is that my disk layout is non-standard, eg. there are no
Peter> "unstable" or "frozen" links to "hamm". This is fairly valid,
Actully, this is a moot point.
Peter> and apt happily handles it,
? It seems to me, that apt does not handle it.
Peter> but it try to use the (semi-relative) paths found in the file
Peter> called Packages,
Which is the only sane way to do it, unless one makes
assumptions about where the packages files are located. Do you
disagree?
Peter> which is incorrect, since my packages are (for example) in
Peter> hamm/hamm/binary-i386/, and *not* dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/.
I think the solution is to conform to the layout on the
archive site locally. I just moved my hamm directory to dists, and
made a link from it to frozen.
Peter> It can be solved by using only the "real relative part" of the path, and
Peter> not to "guess" my layout behind the directories I entered in the setup.
Peter> Dunno how big the work is...
I think making changes locally (would a simple symlink work, I
wonder?) is not too much of a task, is it?
manoj
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