On Tuesday 27 March 2001 23:15, Colin Watson wrote: <snip> > Those are the only tools I know of that will create the Packages > file. Note that you need to gzip the Packages file if you use > dpkg-scanpackages; I think apt-ftparchive will do that for you.
I don't think so. All the programs in my system are installed via apt-get. For every undebianized source I do deb-make, etc., and stash the result into my "private" deb hoard. (I recently found out that my structure is unnecessarily elaborate It appears that we really don't need those main/binary-i386 stuff.) debian:~$ file /ephemeroot/dists/private/main/binary-i386/Packages /ephemeroot/dists/private/main/binary-i386/Packages: ASCII English text, with very long lines debian:~$ grep "ephemeroot" /etc/apt/sources.list deb file:/ephemeroot private main deb file:/ephemeroot/http/www.debian.or.jp/~kitame/mozilla ./ debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/penguin# apt-get update Ign file: private/main Release Ign file: ./ Release Ign file: woody/main Release Ign file: woody/main Release Ign file: sid/main Release Ign file: woody/non-US/main Release Ign file: woody/non-US/main Release Ign file: sid/non-US/main Release Ign file: stable/updates/main Release Ign file: woody/main Release Ign file: woody/main Release Ign file: potato/non-free Release Ign file: potato/contrib Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done
