Installing from locally built .deb files

[Geert Stappers]

At 19:42 +0200 8/23/02, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>> If I have some locally developed software that
>> I've packaged into a .deb file, what is the best
[snip]
>
>Make them available via ftp or http on one of your local machines. Add the
>location of your package collection to sources.list like this one:
>
>(faui05m) [~] cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep sithglan
>deb http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~sithglan/debian ./
>
>and use something like the appended makefile to create Release, Packages and
>Packages.gz
>

-----------------appended Makefile found
TARGET=.

all:
	@touch Release
	@apt-ftparchive packages $(TARGET) | tee $(TARGET)/Packages | gzip
-c > $(TARGET)/Packages.gz
-----------------append Makefile found


Is it really this simple to build a debian archive???



Geert St