On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:46:27PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > I attached a patch against apt-0.5.14 that makes local installs > possible. It's proof-of-concept for now and has a _ugly_ hack in > it when generating the tagfile for the given debian package. > Nothing that can't be fixed, I just wanted to post it as it is so we > can start discussing how to improve it. > > It's very much inspired by how apt-rpm does it. It works for local > .deb files only for now. Apt-rpm has support for build-dep, source, > http and ftp too. We can add this later once the patch is cleaned up. > > I don't know if the patch will break the ABI. I add a new > debSinglePkgIndex class in deb/debindexfile.h
Thanks for the patch. If it's going to call out to dpkg, I think it should definitely use popen or fork/exec rather than system() and a temporary file, but that's easy to fix. It does change the ABI by adding new classes, so it won't be going into 0.5.x. The changes to srcrecords.cc and apt-get.cc seem unrelated; were they intentional? -- - mdz
