Hi, I attached a patch against apt-0.5.14 that makes local installs possible. It's proof-of-concept for now and has a _ugly_ hack in it when generating the tagfile for the given debian package. Nothing that can't be fixed, I just wanted to post it as it is so we can start discussing how to improve it. It's very much inspired by how apt-rpm does it. It works for local .deb files only for now. Apt-rpm has support for build-dep, source, http and ftp too. We can add this later once the patch is cleaned up. I don't know if the patch will break the ABI. I add a new debSinglePkgIndex class in deb/debindexfile.h Comments are welcome, Michael -- Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. - Neo
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