On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 04:45:00PM -0300, Betoes wrote: > We are trying to make a local distribution with specific packages for our > research project. > > How can we generate the Packages.gz based on our ftp server? > > We generated the tree directory of our packages, and they are placed in: > > /debian/dists/stable/local/binary-i386/tools/*.deb > > Is the generation of Packages.gz enough to use apt on a client machine? > > Thanks. Yep, all you need to do is create an override file and run dpkg-scanpackages on it. Run the output through gzip -c and apt will hapily take it. See dpkg-scanpackages(8) for the proper call as well as the format of the override file.
PS. For local archives, dists/distname/binary-arch/section isn't really necessary unless your local archive contains multiple distributions and build platforms. -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http://www.cm.nu Tel: (604) 930-0530 Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Fax: (604) 930-0529 PGP: keyid: 2048/F5C2BD91 ICQ UIN: 120000 Fingerprint: 8C 48 B9 D8 53 BB D8 EF 76 BB DB A2 1C 0D 1D 87
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