Re: Building package caches not under Debian

2001-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 16:38:29 -0500, David West wrote: > I understand that apt needs Packages.gz files for the local cache. Which can be generated quite easily through dpkg-scanpackages(8) as included in the dpkg-dev package. HTH, Ray -- Personally, I guess I'd favor a sort of modified form o

Building package caches not under Debian

2001-11-08 Thread David West
I'm building on a non-Debian box a package cache of a subset of testing to be used later to populate a base Debian install. I've already ensured that the dependencies are satisfied locally. I understand that apt needs Packages.gz files for the local cache. My question is: can I use the correspondi