what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?
Pardon my ineptitude, but I'm trying to work out the process of making a little test package directory to chuck into apt's sources.list, and I'm unsure how one goes about making the Packages, Packages.gz, Release (etc.) files that need to live in there along with the actual package files themselves. I'm presuming there's a program to autogenerate them, but having poked about with "apt-cache search" and at the new maintainers guide et al, I've been unable to find the package that does this (I suppose I missed something obvious somewhere ?) Help ! Thanks heeps, Andrew -- Andrew J Cosgriff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a long way from home
Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?
> "Andrew" == Andrew J Cosgriff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> Pardon my ineptitude, but I'm trying to work out the Andrew> process of making a little test package directory to chuck Andrew> into apt's sources.list, and I'm unsure how one goes about Andrew> making the Packages, Packages.gz, Release (etc.) files Andrew> that need to live in there along with the actual package Andrew> files themselves. Andrew> I'm presuming there's a program to autogenerate them, but Andrew> having poked about with "apt-cache search" and at the new Andrew> maintainers guide et al, I've been unable to find the Andrew> package that does this (I suppose I missed something Andrew> obvious somewhere ?) It depends what, exactly, you are after. however, the usual way is source archive > *.deb using one of debian/rules build fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch (not sure if the last parameter would always be that; sometimes it might be binary-indep). OR dpkg-buildpackage (also builds the source *.tgz and *.diff files). If this is the type of thing you require, have a look at some Debian source code (unpack it with dpkg-source -x *.dsc) to see how to create the source. The simplest (IMHO) package I know of (my package of course!) is diskless, as it is entirely perl and doesn't require compilation. Other good examples will also exist. Also look up dh_make, from dh-make (automatically generate /debian directory of source), and lintian (check package to see if it complies with Debian policy). These might be an overkill for your application, but I think a good idea all the same. Or, if you want to get low-level, the building of the *.deb file comes from "dpkg-deb -b". You must have a DEBIAN directory though containing at least control. I hope this helps... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?
Brian May wrote : > > "Andrew" == Andrew J Cosgriff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andrew> Pardon my ineptitude, but I'm trying to work out the > Andrew> process of making a little test package directory to > Andrew> chuck into apt's sources.list, and I'm unsure how one > Andrew> goes about making the Packages, Packages.gz, Release > Andrew> (etc.) files that need to live in there along with the > Andrew> actual package files themselves. > > It depends what, exactly, you are after. dpkg-scanpackages was it. I missed it when I did a "man -k Packages". Thanks for all the (off-list) replies. -- Andrew J Cosgriff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> do not ingest
Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:30:00PM +1000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote:
> dpkg-scanpackages was it. I missed it when I did a "man -k Packages".
Related to this, I have a question also.
One friend has a new hard drive and wants to copy his 3 unofficial potato
CDs into it, and make them aptable. So I copied the CDs on a
debian/dist/{m,c,n-f,n-u} tree and I guess I only need to run
dpkg-scanpackages on each directory to generate the Packages files. The
problem is I don't know which is the overrides file in the CDs. Is it
necessary?
An example would be the best help.
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Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?
I did this same thing to setup a Debian mirror at work. If you look
carefully, all you have to do is delete the existings Packages.gz files
(since they are for a single CD) and mv Packages-cd.gz Packages.gz (do the
same for the uncompressed packages). It's a lot easier if you do this
with a find . -name Packages-cd -exec mv ..., because there are about 6 of
them.
BTW, this worked for everything *except* non-US, which I need to look
further into. It could just be that I have the source URL in apt
definined incorrectly.
HTH,
tony
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:30:00PM +1000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote:
> > dpkg-scanpackages was it. I missed it when I did a "man -k Packages".
>
> Related to this, I have a question also.
> One friend has a new hard drive and wants to copy his 3 unofficial potato
> CDs into it, and make them aptable. So I copied the CDs on a
> debian/dist/{m,c,n-f,n-u} tree and I guess I only need to run
> dpkg-scanpackages on each directory to generate the Packages files. The
> problem is I don't know which is the overrides file in the CDs. Is it
> necessary?
>
> An example would be the best help.
>
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Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?
I have a question related to this one as well. Is there an automated tool/method
to generate an override file from a directory of debs? I would prefer to use a
tool to build the bulk of the file initially.
If a tool does not exist, (dpkg-distaddfile is close) and if you (debian
community) believe it would be useful, I could create it.
Let me know, thanks!
Fred.
Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:30:00PM +1000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote:
> > dpkg-scanpackages was it. I missed it when I did a "man -k Packages".
>
> Related to this, I have a question also.
> One friend has a new hard drive and wants to copy his 3 unofficial potato
> CDs into it, and make them aptable. So I copied the CDs on a
> debian/dist/{m,c,n-f,n-u} tree and I guess I only need to run
> dpkg-scanpackages on each directory to generate the Packages files. The
> problem is I don't know which is the overrides file in the CDs. Is it
> necessary?
>
> An example would be the best help.
>
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> ka Oskuro in RL-MUD || [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Using Debian GNU/Linux
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