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(all characters from the movie dgbToy Story). These override files are found

in the indices/ directory of any Debian mirror with the name override.bo or

override.rex or override.hamm depending on which distribution the pack 

ages came from. The command line would look something like:

dpkg scanpackage ./bo/binary i386 ./indices/override.bo >Packages

and will run for quite some time. Upon completion the script will print infor 

mation about any differences found between packages and information found

in the override file. This is typically caused by the fact that the maintainer

changed and the override file does not reflect the new maintainer. These

errors are never a problem to the correct operation of the Packages file, but

are informative only. The final information provided by the script gives the

total number of packages added to the Packages file. A copy of this file along

with a gzipped copy should be placed in the outer directory of the distribution

tree. For the standard distribution the Packages file goes into ../binary i386.

When a group of packages are collected into one directory that is the directory

where the Packages and Packages.gz files should be placed as well. Once this

has been accomplished the distribution is ready to be installed using dselect.