I agree jidanni is being annoying, but since I had several hours to kill while I am on the airplane without access to a full mirror, I decided to give approx offline a try.
Approx has a configuration '$offline true' which is off by default, but when enabled, it will serve outdated Packages files etc. I'm right now debugging qemubuilder, and it seems to be working. At Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:24:15 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 03/02/09 at 12:49 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > >>>>> "HL" == Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: > > > > HL> tags 512458 +wontfix > > HL> thanks > > > > HL> Hi, > > > > HL> On Montag, 2. Februar 2009, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > >>> Just use a local approx mirror. > > > > >> I'm saying that if anybody knows how to use piuparts (and/or pbuilder) > > >> offline, then please add an example to the documentation. > > > > HL> You wrote those lines just quoted below the, albeit small, howto. > > Amazing. > > > > HL> As you seem to be unwilling to follow the suggestion to provide a > > HL> patch for the piuparts documentation how to use piuparts offline > > HL> together with the approx package, I'm tagging this bug wontfix, as > > HL> I dont have any interest to fix it. > > > > HL> Feel free to provide a patch, I might include it. Else I will > > HL> close this bug in a month. > > > > HL> regards, > > HL> Holger > > > > I am saying I do not know how to use piuparts offline. Therefore I am > > unable to provide a patch. I am saying if there is anyone who could > > document how to use piuparts offline, then I wish they would please > > kindly document how, with all the steps, starting from poff(1). Thank you. > > You are being annoying. > > There's no such things as "running piuparts offline". What you want is > to run piuparts, and find a way to download or find all the debs that > are necessary without reaching a remote mirror. > > We pointed to different solutions: > - using a full local mirror (but you would need to mirror all of Debian) > - using a local cache/proxy, such as approx, that would have the .debs > you need if you first run piuparts online once on the packages you are > interested in, before running it offline. > > If you don't know how to set up a local mirror or approx, you probably > shouldn't be using piuparts anyway. > > Also, please configure your mailer correctly, and set up a realname. > -- > | Lucas Nussbaum > | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | > | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
