[7993] in athena10
Creating tiny packages and apt repos for testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sat Jul 30 22:39:23 2011
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:39:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu
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I got annoyed at equivs not supporting Breaks: lines
<http://bugs.debian.org/571638> so I wrote a small shell script to spit
out the minimal debhelper-7-rules-file-using package. You can then edit
debian/control the way you'd edit an equivs control file and run debuild,
or you can do more real things with the package, since it is a real
package and not an equivs package.
I also got annoyed at apt not really being able to install packages files
on local disk, so I wrote an even tinier shell script to add all packages
(recursively) in the current directory to an apt repo and add it via the
file protocol to sources.list. It turns out dpkg-scanpackages does this,
it's just easier to have the two-line shell script to remember for you
what the command is and what the sources.list line should be.
Both are in the geofft locker, the former as /mit/geofft/bin/newpackage,
the latter as /mit/geofft/bin/fakerepo. For those of you without /mit, see
http://web.mit.edu/geofft/arch/common/bin/.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
