On Tuesday 10 April 2001 00:38, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Gray wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>My locally generated debs, e.g. from kernel compiles, show up > > >> as obsolete in dselect. Is there an easy way to tell their > > >> locations to the package manager or do I have to mess with > > >> Packages.gz files and the like? > > > > > > You pretty much have to mess with Packages.gz, I'm afraid (at > > > least, that's the easiest way I can think of). apt-ftparchive > > > in the apt-utils package in testing/unstable may help. > > I used to put my local debs (kernels etc) into a directory > (/usr/local/src/debian-local/dists/local/local/binary-i386) > and then run this script: > > #!/bin/sh > cd /usr/local/src/debian-local > dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/local/binary-i386 /dev/null > > dists/local/local/binary-i386/Packages > gzip dists/local/local/binary-i386/Packages > > Then I would add this to sources.list: > > deb file:/usr/local/src/debian-local local/ > > I was never quite sure about the proper directory paths to set up, > and in fact the names above might not be consistant and correct. > Perhaps somebody can comment on, fix or improve this idea? > > ...RickM...
No need to be consistent, really. My sources.list reads deb file:/ephemeroot/pool ./ That's slashdot in reverse. My Packages (no need to gzip it!) file is filed at /ephemeroot/pool/Packages It appears that dpkg-scanpackages creates a Filename: line [Filename: ./nautilus/nautilus_1.0-1_i386.deb] that's appended to the deb line in sources.list [deb file:/ephemeroot/pool ./]. /ephemeroot/pool + ./nautilus/nautilus_1.0-1_i386.deb = /ephemeroot/pool/nautilus/nautilus_1.0-1_i386.deb Giving us the path to the deb in question. Maybe it's time somebody wrote a FAQ/tutor on this.
