On 05-Aug-99 Wim Kerkhoff wrote: >> /usr/local is about 760Mb (723Mb of that is a partial mirror >> of Debian) > > I presume you mean that these are potato packages you have downloaded since > an > initial install of slink. > > What would the best & easiest way of making such a partial mirror or all > packages in potato that are different from slink? With such a mirror, I > could > install what I want using my official slink CD set, then update to my current > state with the partial mirror. This would be really, really handy in case my > system buggers up (or I bugger it up). > > When apt-get downloads packages, it puts them in /var/archive/apt/cache >
Damn, I am getting pissed of at xfmail. It keeps flushing the outbox on me when I don't want it to. Anyways, I want to set up something, so that whatever apt-get downloads is stuc k into a proper hierachy like the mirrors do, and possibly a package file as well. That way, when I want to reinstall, I just install whatever off the CD, and upgrade to potato with my partial mirror. It does *kinda* suck to have to re-download all those packages again at 5kb/sec :) --------------------------- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
