Re: How to use/test locally packaged software?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Christopher Lee <robodoc@mediaone.net> wrote:
>So far I've built one lintian-clean package, put it in
>
> $HOME/Debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-all/interpreters/simpletextdb_1.29-1_all.deb
>
>and used dpkg-scanpackages to make
>
> $HOME/Debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-all/Packages
>
>But when I add the line
>
> 'deb file:/home/chrislee/Debian unstable main'
>
>to my sources.list file, the new package does not seem to register
>when I run update from dselect.

I needed to gzip the Packages file ...

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]