tags 478781 -wontfix thanks -=| Kevin Ryde, Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:28:57AM +1100 |=- > Damyan Ivanov <d...@debian.org> writes: > > > > If you want apt-file to work with your local repositories, make them > > contain Contents files. For example reprepro(1) has Contents > > configuration option for this purpose. > > That sounds like hard work when dpkg has the info (and means you don't > have to keep installed debs around or download the big contents file). > :-) > > Is there a tool to turn the currently installed package files into a > contents index which apt-file would recognise ... or whatever direct > access dh-make-perl is doing now? Could it be as easy as catting > together the /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list files the way dlocate does?
dlocate uses a database, this is why it is much faster than grepping over all .list files (which may be many thousands). I have changed my mind on this. using dh-make-perl to create locally-used packages that depend on other locally-installed packages is a valid usage pattern. Creating artificial Contents files as suggested in another mail may work (the fiile name shall match some line in sources.list), but I guess it takes quite a bit of time and one has to remember to do it after installinng a locally-created package; and it is still a workaround. How does the following look? * search through Contents (if apt-file is installed) warn if no Contents files are found (done now) * if there are still dependencies whose packages are not found, run dlocate if available (and warn if not available) -- possibly when an option is given (off by default)? * if there are still unfound dependencies, walk over all /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list files (if an option is given, off by default) -- or even just call dpkg -S? Controlling more aggressive searches via options gives everyone what is needed. With the introduction of ~/.dh-make-perl/dh-make-perl.conf there won't be need to specify the desired options on each invocation so one is able to change the defaults to their liking. -- dam JabberID: d...@jabber.minus273.org
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