regenerate Packages.gz

[Rene Cunningham]

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

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Rene Cunningham
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[Greg Folkert]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 23:58, 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
>

apt-move is a significant piece I'd say. Here is the Package
Description:
apt-move is used to move a collection of Debian package files into a
proper archive hierarchy as is used in the official Debian archive. It
is intended as a tool to help manage the apt-get(8) file cache, but
could be configured to work with any collection of Debian packages.

Running apt-move periodically will assist in managing the resulting
partial mirror by optionally removing obsolete packages, and creating
valid local Packages.gz files. It can also build a partial or complete
local mirror of a Debian binary distribution (including an
``installed-packages only'' mirror).

Also once you install it make sure you do a "man apt-move" WOW!

Hope this helps.
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