Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Everybody does it differently unfortunately. The criteria is that the > concatination of the last two and the word Packages.gz should locate the > package file and that the concatination of the first and a File: line > in the Package file should locate the .deb
Would it be posslbe to make apt recognize a complete, unplitted url, so long as the .deb's and Packages file are all in a directory together and the Filename: lines in the Packages file doesn't have a directory component? You'd just need to make it assume the trailing 2 fields were empty, I think. It's a degenerate case that'd be very nice for small archives. (Generate Packages file with 'dpkg-scanpackages "./" /dev/null "" > Packages'.) -- see shy jo
