On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:14:29AM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 01:19:36PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > There's no need for a database unless you want to maintain multiple > > distributions out of cross-sections of the pool, as Debian does. > <snip> > > Or is there a different goal you're describing that I don't understand? > > Nope. Currently, I'm maintaining a small (~550MB) mirror of testing, and > hopefully, I can add a smaller (~100MB) stable mirror to that pretty soon. > Therefore, it would be nice if there was a tool to create packagelists from > the pool for each distribution. > > Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to start coding.
It sounds like all you need is for dpkg-scanpackages or apt-ftparchive to optionally accept a list of filenames, instead of a list of directories. I think this would be a useful enhancement. -- - mdz
