Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

[Eric Winger]

Got it! My package installed! Thank you Thank you Thank you everyone. I 
think I was confusing the two types of repositories and how to access 
them (automagic & simple - from the repository howto).

Sorry for delayed response.

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 
> I added deb-src http://mysite/ pool in sources.list

I didn't do this. I followed the comments below by Goswin for my 
structure. In fact, pool doesn't appear in my sources.list at all. (just 
fyi)

That means (replace {dist} and {section} with sid,main or sid,local):

repository/dists/{dist}/{section}/binary-<arch>/Package.gz
reposirory/pool/
Question: Since this is a local-use only repository, wouldn't it make 
more sense to give this a {dist} name that isn't linked with the current 
debian builds - sid, woody, etc. It's clear I can name the dist anything 
I want locally but current good practices should dictate what the name 
should be. Any recommendations?

You can then generate the Packages and Sources files like this:
% cat repository/update.sh
cd repository
dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null 
>dists/{dist}/{section}/binary-i386/Packages
dpkg-scansources pool >dists/{dist}/{section}/source/Sources

gzip -9 <dists/{dist}/{section}/binary-i386/Packages 
>dists/{dist}/{section}/binary-i386/Packages.gz
gzip -9 <dists/{dist}/{section}/source/Sources 
>dists/{dist}/{section}/source/Sources.gz

And in sources.list:
deb http://repository {dist} {section}
I used file:///{repos name}. But I believe that is minor.

You should also create Release files which you can mostly copy from
debian. Take care to change the Origin for BTS purposes though.
I haven't done this yet. Still getting my feet wet. But pinning is 
something I will look into.

MfG
        Goswin
MfG? (just curious)



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