I did this same thing to setup a Debian mirror at work. If you look
carefully, all you have to do is delete the existings Packages.gz files
(since they are for a single CD) and mv Packages-cd.gz Packages.gz (do the
same for the uncompressed packages). It's a lot easier if you do this
with a find . -name Packages-cd -exec mv ..., because there are about 6 of
them.
BTW, this worked for everything *except* non-US, which I need to look
further into. It could just be that I have the source URL in apt
definined incorrectly.
HTH,
tony
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:30:00PM +1000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote:
> > dpkg-scanpackages was it. I missed it when I did a "man -k Packages".
>
> Related to this, I have a question also.
> One friend has a new hard drive and wants to copy his 3 unofficial potato
> CDs into it, and make them aptable. So I copied the CDs on a
> debian/dist/{m,c,n-f,n-u} tree and I guess I only need to run
> dpkg-scanpackages on each directory to generate the Packages files. The
> problem is I don't know which is the overrides file in the CDs. Is it
> necessary?
>
> An example would be the best help.
>
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