Re: Generating pool-based package.gz files

[James Brown]

Mmmkay, so I'll have to populate my existing database from the Packages
file and scan my local repository and override trees seperatly.

Oh well :p

 - Ender

> Obviously you use the Packages file we distribute...
> 
> (If you're interested in the chicken-and-egg problem from Debian's POV,
> we have a separate database of which packages are in which suite; but
> only developers can access it directly)
> 
> Cheers,
> aj
> 
> 

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Re: Generating pool-based package.gz files

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:16:36PM +0800, James Brown wrote:
> Glancing over the manpage it looks exactly the same as scanpackages but
> more configurable not really any different from what I'm doing now.
> 
> The problem is that the pool directory has potato, woody and sid files all
> in one, and I need to know how to only pick out the files from woody...

Obviously you use the Packages file we distribute...

(If you're interested in the chicken-and-egg problem from Debian's POV,
we have a separate database of which packages are in which suite; but
only developers can access it directly)

Cheers,
aj

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Re: Generating pool-based package.gz files

[James Brown]

Glancing over the manpage it looks exactly the same as scanpackages but
more configurable not really any different from what I'm doing now.

The problem is that the pool directory has potato, woody and sid files all
in one, and I need to know how to only pick out the files from woody...

 - Ender

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:43:17PM +0800, James Brown wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > Can anyone point me to any docummentation on how the package files
> > for woody and other pool-based distros are generated?
> 
> apt-get install apt-utils; man apt-ftparchive
> 
> Cheers,
> aj
> 
> 

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Re: Generating pool-based package.gz files

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:43:17PM +0800, James Brown wrote:
> Hey all,  
>   Can anyone point me to any docummentation on how the package files
> for woody and other pool-based distros are generated?

apt-get install apt-utils; man apt-ftparchive

Cheers,
aj

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Generating pool-based package.gz files

[James Brown]

Hey all,
Can anyone point me to any docummentation on how the package files
for woody and other pool-based distros are generated?

For a few months we have been using a dpkg-scanpackages style system to
put our local package repository into mySQL, which is then used for a
bunch of things such as generating the packages file on the fly.

However we now need to move over to testing, and the old system won't work
with pools :)

Can anyone point me to the utilities and maybe some documentation on what
I need to do to clone the testing packages/packages.gz generation?

 - Ender

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