Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There has been a small discussion in the debian-users mailing list about > how to restore a system that was, in the following order: > 1. Installed, slink (for example) > 2. Upgraded (apt-get update, dist-upgrade pointing to frozen) > 3. A copy of the /var/cache/apt/archives was made in another partition > 4. The system for some reason is wiped out (surge, stupid mistake, > whatever) > Now: > The system can be brought back to stage 1. easily from the slink CD or > so. It seems that in order to get to stage 2. another lengthy download > is necessary, but most of the packages are already somewhere in the hard > drive. The problem is that the dependencies, order, etc, is not anywhere > in the /archives, so an average user will be unable to determine what to > do. Somehow this makes dpkg unusable to some extent for the average user > to achieve that purpose. Apt-get will probably not be able either, since > there is no packages.gz > Questions: > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? > I use apt-move to build a local partial mirror. You can just point your sources.list there and there ya go... ;-)
> 2:) Perhaps some other feature can be added to apt-get to allow this > reconstruction to occur in a smooth way? That would save bunches of > bandwidth, etc, etc... > See above. -- Andreas Rottmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Pfeilgasse 4-6/725, A-1080 Wien, Austria, Europe http://www.penguinpowered.com/~andy/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [one of 78,35% Austrians who didn´t vote for Haider!]
