In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
MacKenzie, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to get apt to work installing .deb files from a local directory.
>I have no packages list and I cannot seem to figure out how to make the
>FILE: uri stem work.  I guess the problem is that they are just sitting
>there so I say:
>
>deb file:/dosc/zips/debs 

Generate a Packages file with dpkg-scanpackages and add something like:

deb file:/graveyard/www/debian/ ./

e.g. for that dir I use

Packages.gz: $(overrides)
        dpkg-scanpackages . $(overrides) | gzip -9 > $@
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Steve Haslam            Validation Engineer, ARM Limited, Cambridge, England
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