Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > PS: carefull with File://, apt-get source will create links into the > > mirror and debuild will then erase the files from the repository and > > replace them when you rebuild. > > > I guess I don't follow the warnings en

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > PS: carefull with File://, apt-get source will create links into the > > mirror and debuild will then erase the files from the repository and > > replace them when you rebuild. > > > I guess I don't follow the warnings en

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-27 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:33:44PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > I thought looking at the man page of debuild would help, as I'm not > familiar with debuild. But I didn't see a debian package in the > repository called debuild. Perhaps it is spelled incorrectly? Or maybe I > just missed it. apt-g

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Winger
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: PS: carefull with File://, apt-get source will create links into the mirror and debuild will then erase the files from the repository and replace them when you rebuild. I guess I don't follow the warnings enough to heed them. I thought looking at the man page of debuil

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:33:44PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > I thought looking at the man page of debuild would help, as I'm not > familiar with debuild. But I didn't see a debian package in the > repository called debuild. Perhaps it is spelled incorrectly? Or maybe I > just missed it. apt-g

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Thomas Viehmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >PS: carefull with File://, apt-get source will create links into the > >mirror and debuild will then erase the files from the repository and > >replace them when you rebuild. > While you're warning a

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Winger
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: PS: carefull with File://, apt-get source will create links into the mirror and debuild will then erase the files from the repository and replace them when you rebuild. I guess I don't follow the warnings enough to heed them. I thought looking at the man page of de

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Thomas Viehmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >PS: carefull with File://, apt-get source will create links into the > >mirror and debuild will then erase the files from the repository and > >replace them when you rebuild. > While you're warning a

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >PS: carefull with File://, apt-get source will create links into the >mirror and debuild will then erase the files from the repository and >replace them when you rebuild. While you're warning about file://, how about including a reference to copy://?

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That means (replace {dist} and {section} with sid,main or sid,local): > > > > repository/dists/{dist}/{section}/binary-/Package.gz > > reposirory/pool/ > > > Question: Since this is a local-use only repository, wouldn't it make > more sense to give this

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Thomas Wana
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 08:51, Geert Stappers wrote: > > MfG? (just curious) > > Mit freundliche Greusse > It is German for Not exactly. "Mit freundlichen Grüßen" [...] > WfG > > With Friendly Greetings Does that really exist in English? Tom > > > Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:02:31PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > Got it! My package installed! Thank you Thank you Thank you everyone. I > think I was confusing the two types of repositories and how to access > them (automagic & simple - from the repository howto). > > Sorry for delayed response.

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >PS: carefull with File://, apt-get source will create links into the >mirror and debuild will then erase the files from the repository and >replace them when you rebuild. While you're warning about file://, how about including a reference to copy://?

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That means (replace {dist} and {section} with sid,main or sid,local): > > > > repository/dists/{dist}/{section}/binary-/Package.gz > > reposirory/pool/ > > > Question: Since this is a local-use only repository, wouldn't it make > more sense to give this

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Thomas Wana
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 08:51, Geert Stappers wrote: > > MfG? (just curious) > > Mit freundliche Greusse > It is German for Not exactly. "Mit freundlichen Grüßen" [...] > WfG > > With Friendly Greetings Does that really exist in English? Tom > > > Geert Stappers

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:02:31PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > Got it! My package installed! Thank you Thank you Thank you everyone. I > think I was confusing the two types of repositories and how to access > them (automagic & simple - from the repository howto). > > Sorry for delayed response.

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Winger
Got it! My package installed! Thank you Thank you Thank you everyone. I think I was confusing the two types of repositories and how to access them (automagic & simple - from the repository howto). Sorry for delayed response. Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-25 Thread Eric Winger
Got it! My package installed! Thank you Thank you Thank you everyone. I think I was confusing the two types of repositories and how to access them (automagic & simple - from the repository howto). Sorry for delayed response. Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread dstibbe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/archive$ ls > Packages.gz Sources.gz binary-i386 source k... now this is where you are wrong the structure should be like this : ~/archive/binary-i386/Packages.gz ~/archive/source/Sources.gz and those two files point to wherever your packages might be ( normally you'd

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I did: > > I put the *.deb, *.dsc, *.diff, *.orig.tar.gz in public_html/pool > > I run dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null|gzip -9c> pool/Packages.gz in > public_html > > I run dpkg-scansources pool|gzip -9c> pool/Sources.gz in public_html > > I added

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread dstibbe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/archive$ ls > Packages.gz Sources.gz binary-i386 source k... now this is where you are wrong the structure should be like this : ~/archive/binary-i386/Packages.gz ~/archive/source/Sources.gz and those two files point to wherever your packages might be ( normally you'd

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What I did: I put the *.deb, *.dsc, *.diff, *.orig.tar.gz in public_html/pool I run dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null|gzip -9c> pool/Packages.gz in public_html I run dpkg-scansources pool|gzip -9c> pool/Sources.gz in public_html I added deb-src http

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Eric Winger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030822 23:20]: > I think part of the problem, is that the original problem got lost. I'll > snip your comments, because I believe I understand and correctly have > implemented what you talked about. The problem is that for some reason, > I can't install the pac

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I did: > > I put the *.deb, *.dsc, *.diff, *.orig.tar.gz in public_html/pool > > I run dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null|gzip -9c> pool/Packages.gz in > public_html > > I run dpkg-scansources pool|gzip -9c> pool/Sources.gz in public_html > > I added

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What I did: I put the *.deb, *.dsc, *.diff, *.orig.tar.gz in public_html/pool I run dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null|gzip -9c> pool/Packages.gz in public_html I run dpkg-scansources pool|gzip -9c> pool/Sources.gz in public_html I added deb-src http

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Eric Winger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030822 23:20]: > I think part of the problem, is that the original problem got lost. I'll > snip your comments, because I believe I understand and correctly have > implemented what you talked about. The problem is that for some reason, > I can't install the pac

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Christopher W. Curtis
On 08/22/03 17:00, Eric Winger wrote: > I think part of the problem, is that the original problem got lost. I'll > snip your comments, because I believe I understand and correctly have Ok - firstly I want to clarify my previous post, regarding documentation, which could be easily misconstrued. W

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Christopher W. Curtis
On 08/22/03 17:00, Eric Winger wrote: > I think part of the problem, is that the original problem got lost. I'll > snip your comments, because I believe I understand and correctly have Ok - firstly I want to clarify my previous post, regarding documentation, which could be easily misconstrued. W

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Winger
Christopher Curtis wrote: Eric: This is really very simple. I think part of the problem, is that the original problem got lost. I'll snip your comments, because I believe I understand and correctly have implemented what you talked about. The problem is that for some reason, I can't install

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 August 2003 20:50, Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still missing something. Where should the .deb files be in > relationship to the Packages.gz? I thought the same directory. Is > that not correct? I use the following: * Pu

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Eric Winger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030822 22:03]: > I'm still missing something. Where should the .deb files be in > relationship to the Packages.gz? I thought the same directory. Is that > not correct? Well, at least I have lost the overview over this thread. I myself use this script (courtesy

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Christopher Curtis
Eric Winger wrote: I'm still missing something. Where should the .deb files be in relationship to the Packages.gz? I thought the same directory. Is that not correct? Eric: This is really very simple. 'apt-get' is just a web browser. Look at other repositories. Look at your sources.list an

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Winger
Geert Stappers wrote: I missed the architecture in your archive directory lay-out. Architecture is something like 'alpha', 'powerpc'. or 'ia64' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/pub/debian/dists/sarge/main $ pwd /pub/debian/dists/sarge/main [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/pub/debian/dists/sarge/main $ ls binary-alpha bi

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:56:29AM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > > > deb file:///home/ewinger/archive binary/ > > > > These are incompatible. Either create Packages relative to archive (not > > binary), or use > > > > deb file:///home/ewinger/archive/binary ./ > > >

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Winger
Christopher Curtis wrote: Eric: This is really very simple. I think part of the problem, is that the original problem got lost. I'll snip your comments, because I believe I understand and correctly have implemented what you talked about. The problem is that for some reason, I can't install t

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 August 2003 20:50, Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still missing something. Where should the .deb files be in > relationship to the Packages.gz? I thought the same directory. Is > that not correct? I use the following: * Pu

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Eric Winger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030822 22:03]: > I'm still missing something. Where should the .deb files be in > relationship to the Packages.gz? I thought the same directory. Is that > not correct? Well, at least I have lost the overview over this thread. I myself use this script (courtesy

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Christopher Curtis
Eric Winger wrote: I'm still missing something. Where should the .deb files be in relationship to the Packages.gz? I thought the same directory. Is that not correct? Eric: This is really very simple. 'apt-get' is just a web browser. Look at other repositories. Look at your sources.list and t

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Winger
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > deb file:///home/ewinger/archive binary/ These are incompatible. Either create Packages relative to archive (not binary), or use deb file:///home/ewinger/archive/binary ./ or such -- - mdz I tried using deb file:///home/ewinger/archive/binary ./ & moving the

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Winger
Geert Stappers wrote: I missed the architecture in your archive directory lay-out. Architecture is something like 'alpha', 'powerpc'. or 'ia64' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/pub/debian/dists/sarge/main $ pwd /pub/debian/dists/sarge/main [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/pub/debian/dists/sarge/main $ ls binary-alpha binary

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:56:29AM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > > > deb file:///home/ewinger/archive binary/ > > > > These are incompatible. Either create Packages relative to archive (not > > binary), or use > > > > deb file:///home/ewinger/archive/binary ./ > > >

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:13:11AM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The Packages.gz was created with: (from inside ~/archive/binary) > > apt-ftparchive packages . > /dev/null | gzip > Packages.gz > > The Sources.gz was created with: (from inside ~/archive/binary) > > apt-ftparchive sources . > /dev/

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Winger
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > deb file:///home/ewinger/archive binary/ These are incompatible. Either create Packages relative to archive (not binary), or use deb file:///home/ewinger/archive/binary ./ or such -- - mdz I tried using deb file:///home/ewinger/archive/binary ./ & moving the conten

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Winger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the tree structure of your repository look like (where are the packages , where is Packages.gz etc ) and where do you point to in /etc/apt/sources.list ? The directory structure of my archive looks like this: ~/archive/binary$ ls Packages.gz spinelli

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:13:11AM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The Packages.gz was created with: (from inside ~/archive/binary) > > apt-ftparchive packages . > /dev/null | gzip > Packages.gz > > The Sources.gz was created with: (from inside ~/archive/binary) > > apt-ftparchive sources . > /dev/

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Winger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the tree structure of your repository look like (where are the packages , where is Packages.gz etc ) and where do you point to in /etc/apt/sources.list ? The directory structure of my archive looks like this: ~/archive/binary$ ls Packages.gz spinelli_0.9

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-21 Thread dstibbe
> Forgot to mention that I got this after doing apt-get update: > > Ign file: binary/ Release > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > I thought that the first line might have been ok because I'm not doing > any pinning. Maybe that was a bad assumption. > > apt-cache p

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably a simple question. But I've created a local > repository. Figured out how dput moved packages into the > archive. Worked through atp-ftparchive and created a Packages.gz file, > got sources-list to point at my archive correctly. > > > But when I

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-21 Thread dstibbe
> Forgot to mention that I got this after doing apt-get update: > > Ign file: binary/ Release > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > I thought that the first line might have been ok because I'm not doing > any pinning. Maybe that was a bad assumption. > > apt-cache p

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably a simple question. But I've created a local > repository. Figured out how dput moved packages into the > archive. Worked through atp-ftparchive and created a Packages.gz file, > got sources-list to point at my archive correctly. > > > But when I

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-21 Thread Eric Winger
Forgot to mention that I got this after doing apt-get update: Ign file: binary/ Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done I thought that the first line might have been ok because I'm not doing any pinning. Maybe that was a bad assumption. apt-cache policy spinelli

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-21 Thread Eric Winger
Forgot to mention that I got this after doing apt-get update: Ign file: binary/ Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done I thought that the first line might have been ok because I'm not doing any pinning. Maybe that was a bad assumption. apt-cache policy spinelli re

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-21 Thread Christopher Curtis
Eric Winger wrote: But when I do a apt-get install spinelli (spinelli is my package) I get this message. E: Package spinelli has no installation candidate I assume the 'apt-get update' succeeded; Try apt-cache policy spinelli Also - look at your packages file and make sure the File: header po

can't install from a local repository

2003-08-21 Thread Eric Winger
Probably a simple question. But I've created a local repository. Figured out how dput moved packages into the archive. Worked through atp-ftparchive and created a Packages.gz file, got sources-list to point at my archive correctly. But when I do a apt-get install spinelli (spinelli is my packa

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-21 Thread Christopher Curtis
Eric Winger wrote: But when I do a apt-get install spinelli (spinelli is my package) I get this message. E: Package spinelli has no installation candidate I assume the 'apt-get update' succeeded; Try apt-cache policy spinelli Also - look at your packages file and make sure the File: header points

can't install from a local repository

2003-08-21 Thread Eric Winger
Probably a simple question. But I've created a local repository. Figured out how dput moved packages into the archive. Worked through atp-ftparchive and created a Packages.gz file, got sources-list to point at my archive correctly. But when I do a apt-get install spinelli (spinelli is my packag