On 08/20/03 19:05, Eric Winger wrote: > Continuing our investigation into debian packages, we'd like to be able > to create our own internal archive/repository for just our packages. ... > I don't see much information on what an archive is, how one > creates/administers one, how one puts packages in one and identifies it > to sources.list. I suspect that info is there, I'm just missing it.
A quick google for "apt repository howto", besides pulling up a surprising number of links about RPMs, also brings up these two: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/giles/repository/repository.html One of these should be enough to get you started. A poor man's version would be: "man dpkg-scanpackages" Also, look at the layout of the small repositories at apt-get.org rgds, Chris