Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote: > Just try to use apt and observed it is missing something (at least this > is how I see this): it doesn't have a [scan] facility. In other words, > it will not let you install packages if you do not have a Packages.gz > file and if the files aren't placed where Packagez.gz says. Do am I > missing something here ? Because in this way you are forbiden to take > some .deb files from the net, put them in a local directory and use > dselect to install them !
This "scan" functionality is in the program called dpkg-scanpackages. Use it like dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages -- see shy jo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
