Hi Steve, On 04/19/2013 02:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Helge Deller wrote: >> >> Sure! >> Yes, just let me know what you want (and commands with which I can do that >> :-)). >> >>> AFAICT, an InRelease file isn't needed if you have Release and Release.gpg >>> (we do). >> >> Those in the parisc-linux archive are just based on a little (unfinished) >> testing by me. Again, any hints which commands I need to run would be >> helpful. >> >>> If they are moved under dists/, then that should be enough to get >>> past this roadblock, although I think the Packages file will also need some >>> work (probably regenerating) so that it doesn't include paths relative to >>> the current directory. >> >> This is what I currently do: >> dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null >Packages >> gzip -c9 Packages > Packages.gz >> bzip2 -cz Packages > Packages.bz2 >> >> Then in addition I tried (based on info from >> http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt#How_apt_uses_Release.gpg): >> # apt-ftparchive packages . > Packages >> apt-ftparchive release . > Release >> # gpg -abs -o Release.gpg Release >> >> Any hints? > > If you're not sure what you're doing, reprepro is probably a good tool > to work with - it's designed to take a lot of the hassle out of > managing a Debian archive like this.
That's what I was searching for! Thanks, this looks good. Initial tests looked promising. May take some time though, since the package is not yet installed on the parisc-linux server.... :-( Helge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
