Re: regenerate Packages.gz

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:58:57PM +1000, Rene Cunningham wrote:
> Gday,
> 
> Is there a Debian tool that will help me regenerate Packages.gz from a
> pool of packages? I can use dpkg-scanpackages in a script but since i
> have woody and sid packages in the same pool directory, the latest
> version is written to Packages.gz
> 
> Script goes something like 
> 
> PKGDIR=`find pool -type d -print | uniq`
> 
> for PKG in ${PKGDIR}; do
>         if [ -d "${PKG}" ]; then
>                 chmod a+r ${PKG}
>                 echo Making Packages.gz 
>                 echo
>                 dpkg-scanpackages ${PKG} /dev/null | gzip -9c >>
> dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
>       fi

Have you looked at mini-dinstall or apt-ftparchive?  They're probably
closer to what you want.

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