more than one arch in config tree?

[Henning Glawe]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:56:05PM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> I know about the -arch flag to dpkg-scanpackages, but Packages.gz is a
> pretty unique file name, isn't it? I cannot imagine a way to have one
> for I386, one for X86_64, one for Alpha... It's troublesome enough to
> keep several nfsroot's up-to-date (or working at least).

simple answer: don't keep your packages in the config tree. This is generally
a bad idea, because binaries make revision control nearly impossible.

A good package, which I can recommend for managing package repositories, is
mini-dinstall: it does all the dirty work for you (moves packages into the
proper places, keeps Packages and Sources up-to-date and optionally even
cleans up obsolete packages.

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henning