dpkg-scanpackages: info: Wrote 2898 entries to output Packages file. dpkg-scansources unstable /dev/null > unstable/Sources bzip2 -c9 unstable/Packages > unstable/Packages.bz2 gzip -c9 unstable/Packages > unstable/Packages.gz bzip2 -c9 unstable/Sources > unstable/Sources.bz2 gzip -c9 unstable/Sources > unstable/Sources.gz dpkg-scanpmpackages processing unstable/Packages.bz2 apt-ftparchive -c=Release.conf release unstable > unstable/Release rm unstable/Release.gpg gpg -abs -o unstable/Release.gpg unstable/Release real 11m14.629s user 1m45.227s sys 1m56.679s
The dpkg-scan* tools are probably not the best solution for such big repository having 2898 packages in one folder..., but given enough patience it works! :-)