On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 01:45:35PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Thursday 27 July 2023 at 13:43:27, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
>
> > ----------
> > for P in *.deb ; do
> > ar p $P control.tar.xz | tar xOJf - ./control
> > echo
> > done | gzip > Packages.gz
> > ----------
>
> Aha - ta - I'll give this a go :)

I realized the Packages.gz file will need "Filename: ./$P" tags added
to the blocks as well. So possibly it works to add them at the end,
like:

----------
for P in *.deb ; do
ar p $P control.tar.xz | tar xOJf - ./control
echo "Filename: ./$P"
echo
done | gzip > Packages.gz
----------

Ralph.

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