> No, that wouln't work. I have debs from a lot of places (unofficial
> packages, updated versions backported to slink, etc, etc) and I want to
> combine them onto one CD. So I have to build my own Packages.gz
I do that all the time. On my system, I have a directory /debian/local, where
I dump all the assorted .deb's. Then, in the /debian directory, I have the
following one-line script, called 'makelocal'.
dpkg-scanpackages local /dev/null | gzip >local/Packages.gz
So, I go into /debian, and run ./makelocal. (I know, I could make this more
generic, and runnable from anywhere, but if it ain't broke, etc, etc.)
Jim R
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