On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Michael Vogt wrote: > We need a FileFd that contains the needed tags. In what way we obtain > the tags is irrelevant of course. I hope we find a better way than the > above for this :) You need to use the utils in apt-inst that provide raw .deb access in a way that is compatible with the tag record parser. Read the source to apt-ftparchive to find out how.. Though I'd rather not have apt-get linked with apt-utils :| Jason