[maemo-developers] where might this old version be coming from

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 12:52:44 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote:
>> Guillem Jover wrote:
>>> You mean something like dpkg-scanpackages or apt-ftparchive?
>> According to man pages they would seem to do at least part of the work,
>> but it wasn't on quick reading clear how I would actually use them
>> (I have no experience with maintaining or creating repositories).
>>
>> For example if:
>> - I've built in Scratchbox ARMEL packages "a.deb" & "b.deb"
>> - I'am outside of Sbox in the directory where these packages are
>> - the device memory card is mounted to /media/n810/ on my Debian
>>   Desktop
>>
>> What I need to do to get a "repository" created under
>> /media/n810/repository/?
> 
> Something like:
> 
>   $ mkdir -p /media/n810/repository
>   $ cp $sboxdir/*.deb /media/n810/repository/
>   $ cd /media/n810/repository/
>   $ $packages_generator . | gzip -9 > Packages.gz
> 
> where packages_generator is either “dpkg-scanpackages” or
> “apt-ftparchive packages”.

My Etch dpkg-scanpackages didn't work, but apt-ftparchive
worked fine.  Thanks, I hadn't thought it would be this simple!

(I had thought that the directory hierarchy was needed,
but as the generated Packages file refers to the packages
relatively it's not...)


AM had some things it needs too, so all together the required steps
are following:

On PC:
* Creating directory structure expected by AM to memory card root:
   mkdir -p /media/<USB mount>/dists/diablo/user/binary-armel
* Moving the armel binary packages to this directory
   mv *.deb /media/<USB mount>/dists/diablo/user/binary-armel
* Generating the Packages file in that directory:
   cd /media/<USB mount>/dists/diablo/user/binary-armel
   apt-ftparchive . | gzip -9 > Packages.gz

On device:
* Add the memory card repository to the Application manager
   from Menu->Tools->Application catalogue:
   - give Catalogue name like "Memory card"
   - give "file:///media/mmc1/" as Web address
   - leave Distro empty and Components as "user"
     (if you change that from "user", change also the directory
      hierarchy on memory card accordingly)
* OK this & cancel catalog list and the new catalog is
   refreshed.  In AM installable package list you see
   then all packages listed under the "user/" section

Maybe somebody can add this to the wiki?


	- Eero