On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:56:05PM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > I know about the -arch flag to dpkg-scanpackages, but Packages.gz is a > pretty unique file name, isn't it? I cannot imagine a way to have one > for I386, one for X86_64, one for Alpha... It's troublesome enough to > keep several nfsroot's up-to-date (or working at least).
simple answer: don't keep your packages in the config tree. This is generally a bad idea, because binaries make revision control nearly impossible. A good package, which I can recommend for managing package repositories, is mini-dinstall: it does all the dirty work for you (moves packages into the proper places, keeps Packages and Sources up-to-date and optionally even cleans up obsolete packages. -- c u henning
