Tools to maintain my own set of homebrewed deb's?

I've got a whole bunch of machines that maintain at school and home and I've also got a laptop. Sometimes, there will be some software that I want to install on many/most of them and, due to licensing restrictions, they don't exist on the normal Debian mirrors. Two examples of this are the

Re: Tools to maintain my own set of homebrewed deb's?

This one time, at band camp, Joe Emenaker said: I've got a whole bunch of machines that maintain at school and home and I've also got a laptop. Sometimes, there will be some software that I want to install on many/most of them and, due to licensing restrictions, they don't exist on the normal

Re: Tools to maintain my own set of homebrewed deb's?

What I'm trying to do now is automate the process of generating the Packages.gz file automatically from the control files contained within the individual packages. In other words, I want to be able to upload some new or updated deb's to my web server, then run some command that automatically

Re: Tools to maintain my own set of homebrewed deb's?

dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null Packages gzip Packages you could set up a cronjob to make a new Packages.gz file each night is that what you were asking? Um... Yeah! It even generates the Size and MD5sum fields. Snazzy. Thanks Jason and Stephen. Oh, and you can save a step with: