On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:55:11PM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen und Osamu Aoki schrieben: > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:29:40AM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I would like to search a local mirror and a local repository with > >> apt-file. How can I generate the Contents-<arch>.gz files needed? > > > If you happent to use reprepro to create the repository: set the > > 'Contents' keyword for the distribution in conf/distributions . > > > > > By "apt-ftparchive generate" > > > > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/po4a/html/ch02.en.html#_small_public_package_archive > > > > Thanks to both of you! I'm happily using a combination of both > approaches now. > > An additional question regarding apt-ftparchive: How can I specify which > architecture the contents file should contain information for? Couldn't > a repository contain different sets of packages for different architectures?
Yes. Please read on "man apt-ftparchive" and developers-reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ Your queston is too big to answer here nor I have it. > @Osamu: Would you be interested in feedback regarding the Debian > Reference? What would be the best to report a typo or suggest a > clarification? Typo: --> diff to svn repo at DDP submitted to BTS: debian-reference Contents: --> report submitted to BTS: debian-reference SVN is available SVN: $ svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/trunk/quick-reference qref # (r/o - just Debian Reference) SVN+SSH: $ svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/trunk/quick-reference qref # (r/w - just Debian Reference) BTS (use reportbug) http://bugs.debian.org/debian-reference http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=debian-reference -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
