On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:29:45PM +0000, Alexis Huxley wrote:
> > I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not organized in any
> > way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make apt recognize this
> > repository? I tried adding
> >
> > deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/
> >
> > to the apt-sources file, but of course apt balks at this as it is "malformed"
> > because it doesn't have the sections listed after the directory. The
> > .debs come from all sorts of sections of the official debian distro. How can I
> > make this work?
>
> Look at
> http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/STABLE/advocacy/ahdg/ahdg/node4.html#SECTION00450000000000000000
> and
> http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/STABLE/advocacy/ahdg/ahdg/node2.html#SECTION00242000000000000000
Or another possibility.
deb file:/home/dh/download debian/
You can create the required Packages file with apt-ftparchive (and prob.
other tools too.)
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