Brad wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:10:06PM -0500, Matt Ray wrote: > > I've setup an internal anonymous FTP mirror for potato, but now I need > > to add a custom .deb to it. I can't seem to get my sources.list and the > > location of the .debs to work together. > > > [SNIP] > > > > but I'm banging my head against a wall. Any suggestions for setting > > where to place files in an ftp directory? > > I'll assume you know how to use dpkg-scanpackages to create a Packages > file, with the proper paths in the 'Filename:' fields. All you need then > is to understand how apt interprets sources.list. Back in February i > wrote up an explanation, check > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0002/msg02422.html > > Hope this helps! >
That kinda helped, got me on the right path at least. Everything was working just fine, the real problem was that I didn't realize the Packages file had to be gzip'ed (Packages.gz). This was not the case when I used the Packages file off of a floppy, I'm not really sure why this is inconsistent between transfer methods and I don't recall seeing it officially documented. -- Matthew H. Ray Programmer, Coral Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
