I have read a few apt-get how to's but the commands they tell me to do don't work except one. Or they were ment for deb files and when I try to change it to rpm is does not work.

What I am looking for is a equivalent to genhdlist command. I have a lot of SUSE and MDK rpms in different directories. form my MDK .rpms Ill do a genhdlist to made the hdlist.cz. What is the apt-get version.

I tried this in my sources.list

files are on a local serve in /mnt/VOLUME/rpms.locaL

so in my sources.list

rpm-dir file:///mnt VOLUME local

This works. A little. You see when I do the apt-get update it will take about 1 hour to complete. The directory has about 1gb of data. There has to be a way to make the apt-get version of hdlist.cz.

thought about using alien?

Did a google on alien
"Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats."

Thanks Ill use that for something else

but Im trying to make a "list" file for apt-get that is the same as hdlist.cz for urpmi. I have about 1gb of .rpms on a local computer. I cant get apt-get to work with it. with urpmi I just did

genhdlist /route/to/rpms/folder

and it made the hdlist.cz in that folder.

How do I do this for apt-get?

I may have found out how

http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/AptGet

Ill get back in the morning. Im going to bed....