Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > Hello Joost and thanks for the reply. > > > > I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to > > get it to do what it can for me......as far as that goes. > > Oh, sorry, I didn't quite get that. > > You could have made a Packages file yourself, with dpkg-scanpackages and > put that in a DIY archive and use it with dselect (making a custom > archive). You'll have to make an "override" file too, to get > dpkg-scanpackages to add sections to the packages entries in the Packages > file. You can find examples in the ftp.debian.org /debian/indices/ > directory. Is override.bo.gz the example you refer to? I just downloaded it and will have a look a little later...have to run an errand. thanks hgh -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .