[Piuparts-devel] correctly pass --extra-package debs to piuparts

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2018-08-05 13:57, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Unfortunately, I see no easy way to achieve the same with piuparts. How does
> one pass extra packages to piuparts? --extra-old-packages seems to be the wrong
> choice. Is the only way to do this by creating a new apt repository with all
> additional .deb packages and pass that to piuparts via --extra-repo?

Yes. That's the only way to make them available to apt. If you would
give optional .deb files to piuparts, we would just copy them, make a
repo locally and use that.
All you need to provide is a local directory with all the .debs and a
Packages file in there. Does not need to be signed or have a Release
file or anything fancy.


Andreas