Previously Christopher Buckley wrote: > Oh boy, am I gonna blow YOUR mind!!!!
My spam filter was very happy with that line :) > First, the command for "dpkg-scanpackages" is incomplete. That command > should read: > > dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip > Packages.gz > > Nothing else works. There are other variants that work. > If you attempt to specify an output path as in: > > dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null mypath/subpath | gzip > Packages.gz > > The Packages.gz will be invalidated by the statement(s): > > Filename: mypath/subpath./packagename.deb > > Which should be more like: > > Filename: /mypath/subpath/packagename.deb Why? You explicitly specified a relative path in the dpkg-scanpackages invocation. > Next, the statements to use APT locally should read: > > deb file: main debs > > OR > > deb-src file: main debs > > and you MUST specify either main, stable, contrib, non-US, or non-free > as the FIRST argument. If I remember correctly you can get away with not specifying a section as well. You can also use "./" if you are not using sections in your archive. > One would think that "file:/" WOULD default to root, and skip any > other assumptions, but it does not. file:/ is not a legal URI, you have to use file:/// instead. But I don't see where you can use file: URIs here. > Since you can't pas an output path to dpkg-scanpackages, your *.deb > files must be in: > > /var/cache/apt/archives Now you completely lost me. Perhaps you should start but saying what it is you are trying to accomplish. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wiggy.net/ A random hacker
