On 02/02/09 at 05:44 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Dear debian-devel: has anybody tried piuparts, pbuilder offline? > > You see, often there is some package that I suspect is not > diaper-trained, leaving more than just say footprints in /var/log/ > upon purge, or perhaps not cleaning back up the "Registry" (debconf), etc. > > So I think: well there's this piuparts package that can test those > things. > > But my attempts with piuparts seem to show that it was made for people > with good network connections. > > But then I say to myself: if, totally offline, I can apt-get (or > aptitude) install and purge some package X, then why can't I do > piuparts tests too offline? > > Everything I need is there, in /var/lib/apt/lists and > /var/cache/apt/archives. (One hopes they could be mounted > (read-only!!) during any tests.) > > Everything except instructions, that even Limited Edition Brain me can > follow, see the Cc'd bugs. Thanks.
As it was already said in one of the bug reports you filed about that: Just use a local approx mirror. -- | 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
