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= Creating repository index files =

The tools [[DebianMan:1/dpkg-scanpackages|dpkg-scanpackages(1)]] and [[DebianMan:1/dpkg-scansources|dpkg-scansources(1)]]  (from package DebPkg:dpkg-dev) are used to create the index files:
{{{
cd /debian
dpkg-scansources dists/local/custom/source | gzip > dists/local/custom/source/Sources.gz
dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/custom/binary-i586 | gzip > dists/local/custom/binary-i586/Packages.gz
}}}

== Override File ==

An override file can be optionally specified. For old versions of Debian (etch or older) if no override file exists, /dev/null must be provided as an explicit argument.