Hi everyone,
I have been using linux since last 3 months. I am sorry if I am asking stupid question.
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I have some source of some packages( .dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz) and I want to generate a [.changes] file for it so that I can use [reprepro] for generating my desired repository.

I read the manual of dpkg-genchanges and try with it however, It direct me to help of the command.

1. Can I generate from ( .dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz) file a [.changes].
2. If question (1) is not possible, how can I use directly ( .dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz) in reprepro for generating my repository.

Thanks in advance

What in flinderation are you setting up a repository for?

Thanks a lot for reply,
Just now I could generate the .change,.deb, .build files using:
1. apt-get source packagename, 2. apt-get build-dep packagename, 3. debuild -us -uc.
and now I want to create my repository, using "reprepro" command using this command:
>>reprepro -Vb . --ignore=wrongdistribution basefoldername /.../../file.changes and I get the following errors:
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Unable to find pool/main/filename.tar.gz needed by filename.dsc!
perhaps you forgot to give dpkg-buildpackage the -sa option,
deleting and forgetting pool/main/file.deb
deleting and forgetting pool/main/file.diff.gz
deleting and forgetting pool/main/file.dsc
deleting and forgetting pool/main/file.deb
removed now empty directory ./pool/main ...
removed now empty directory ./pool/main ...
There have been errors!
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what can be the problem although that I have build the dependencies and rebuild the packages?

Thanks

I do not know what your problem is.

Seems to me it is a path problem. Have you seen this;
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286

It may be a help.

Thanks a lot for reply, I have already gone through this procedure, however, I get this message on apt-get dist-upgrade
ATTENTION: The package cannot be authenticated packagename Do you want to install it without varification [y/N]?

Are you trying to put Debian packages on Ubuntu. This is not a good idea at all. Ubuntu does not use the same file paths a lot of times and mixing packages from the 2 different sources can break your system very badly.

Doesn't Ubuntu have packages for this program? May have a different name.
http://www.jejik.com/articles/2006/0...with_reprepro/

http://www.jejik.com/articles/2006/0...with_reprepro/
That last link is for Hardy 8.04. I don't have time to search further but is this a maintained package or is no one working on it. That is pretty old for todays kernels I would think.

Thanks my repository is in this link which is in old hardy I want to upgrade it with its personal packages to lucid:
http://tamtam.pischiello.echosolution.it/echolinux

Can you please tel me how to upgrade it to lucid?

Thanks

I don't think that you can.

However, I would run a search in synaptic for repository. I think that should get anything that would help. I know that there are 2 packages in the Debian repo that will do that job. They are likely to be in the 10.04 repo as I am sure I saw them in the Squeeze repo.

I would hunt them up myself but I have a dist-upgrade running right now from testing to sid so I can't run synaptic.

I am sorry I didn't make a note of the packages. I usually do but it was another late night and I forgot.

I have recompiled all packages using which are in my repository for lucid as:
1. apt-get source packagename
2. apt-get build-dep packagename
3. debuild -us -uc

and then I will add integrate the non-free with my recompiled lucid debian files and will generate repository by reprepro.

What do you think will it works?

Please help me thanks

I really do not know but I did find reprepro in the Debian Wheezy repo. I would think it would be in the Squeeze repo and so should be in the Lucid repo.

I tried the following method and I think I am getting closer to it:

1.I rebuild some packages, and downloaded some packages from debian archive and integrated my personal packages according to this link:
2. http://tamtam.pischiello.echosolution.it/echolinux main non-free freedit
3. I made a new repository from .deb files of above packages(Item 1), using reprepro as:
NEW REPOSITORY http://tamtam.pischiello.echosolution.it/echolinux_new/

and during executing reprepro command I got
error at the end as "There are several errors ..."

than I tried in a box:
1. I added http://tamtam.pischiello.echosolution.it/echolinux_new/ lamlam main non-free freedit in source.list
2. apt-get update
3. apt-get dist-upgrade

I got this error at the end of dist-upgrade(The error was in Italian language I translated as):
Some errors have been verified in /var/cache/apt/archive/libgtk2.0-dev_2.20.1-0ubuntu2_adm.deb
/var/cache/apt/archive/libhtml-parser-perl_3.64-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /user/bin/dpkg returned an error code(1)

What do you advise me next?

I only mentioned the Debian repo as I would think that similar packages would be in the 10.04 repo or, as you have done, try the Debian package in Ubuntu.

I do assume that you know that mixing the Debian and Ubuntu repos is not a real great idea. Ubuntu uses different paths for many things. This causes problems that can be dangerous to your system.

You could try a small install of Debian to set up your repo. If the packages are prepared in Ubuntu and just put in place by Debian I would think, perhaps wrongly, that it would work.

Probably removing the Debian packages from your Ubuntu install would be a good idea.

I did a new repository in which I excluded the debian packages however, I get still the same error
any idea?

thanks

I have no idea what so ever.

Edit
I was clicking on the links and all worked for me up to the non-free which returned that I didn't have "permission to access the server".

Don't know if that is any help or not.

I dont know how to solve this problem, by the way in the new link I have put the non-free packages would you please check it and tell me how to integrate it with new lucid?
http://tamtam.pischiello.echosolutio.../pool/non-free