I have made a tiny local subtree of the slink distribution to play
with mozilla. With dpkg-scanpackages, I have made my own Packages
file and pointed apt to it. /etc/apt/sources.list has the single entry
deb file:/home/local/mirror/debian slink main
apt-get update seems to get the Packages
file, but apt-get upgrade just reports
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
However, my mirror contains newer packages than the ones on my system
(libstdc++2.9, lesstifg, lesstifg-dev).
Here is my mirror tree (/home/local/mirror/debian):
411026 Sep 9 13:52 dists/slink/main/binary-i386/admin/apt_0.1.6.deb
96 Jul 12 13:09 dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Release
1609 Sep 26 19:56 dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
3158562 Sep 13 13:52 dists/slink/main/binary-i386/web/mozilla_19980904-1.deb
95172 Sep 22 13:53
dists/slink/main/binary-i386/base/libstdc++2.9_2.91.57-3.deb
561382 Sep 20 13:52 dists/slink/main/binary-i386/libs/lesstifg_0.86.5-1.deb
98472 Sep 20 13:52
dists/slink/main/binary-i386/devel/lesstifg-dev_0.86.5-1.deb
The package info is recorded correctly in the file
/var/state/apt/lists/home_local_mirror_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages
The package versions on my system are:
apt 0.1.6
lesstifg 1:0.86.0-2
lesstifg-dev 1:0.86.0-2
libstdc++2.9 2.91.57-1
mozilla 19980904-1
Trying another sources.list line gave the same result:
deb file:/home/local/mirror/debian dists/slink/main/binary-$(ARCH)/
What have I done wrong, why does apt not work?
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Oliver Schoett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
