On 23 Oct 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Okay, besides "stable contrib non-free local" there is also: > non-US > project/experimental > project/misc > project/orphaned > project/other_kernels > > This is a CD from JFL, a book store in Germany. > (<a href="http://www.lob.de";>Lehmanns Online Bookshop</a>) > > So, I guess you don't know of a method to tell dselect to search > through those directories, too, right? Could I manually cat the > Packages file into the available file???
The packages file must have the correct "Filename: " entry for each package it lists for dselect to be able to use it. If it has that correctly, then yes, you can use `dpkg --merge-available` ( don't clear the available list in dselect after that. ) You can also build a Packages file yourself with dpkg-scanpackages, but you need an overridefile. I doubt that one is on the cd, but they're easy to build for yourself. Just take a peek in the examples in the /debian/indices directory. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
