On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:41:38AM -0400, Chris Danis wrote: > > >>>>> On Thu, 24 May 2001, "Viral" == Viral wrote: > > Viral> If I have uploaded experimental pacakages to my homepage, how do I > Viral> make the required Packages and Sources files so that the packages > Viral> can be used with apt-get ? > > Assuming you have apt >> 0.5.0, man apt-ftparchive. ftparchive is pretty > easy to use IMO. > > Otherwise, you'll have to use dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources (from > the dpkg-dev package). Both, of course, have manpages as well ;) > > NB: You don't really need your own override file; both will work fine > without one. Even though dpkg-scan* asks for one on the command line, you > can just pass it /dev/null :) > > Of course, feel free to ask if you run into trouble or anything I have cat-pkg somewhere, which works quite well for me, though it's not the best - I'm looking at apt-ftparchive. :) d -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
