>>>>> "Olaf" == Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
itz> I have a potato system, but I downloaded a couple of upgraded itz> packages from woody and placed them in a local mirror directory. itz> I generated the Packages files with dpkg-scanpackages. That went itz> fine, so I added a "deb file:" line for the local mirror to itz> sources.list and run dselect. In the Select phase I could see itz> the newer versions as available. I selected them. But the itz> Install phase ignored my local mirror, tried to download the itz> updates from the potato archive, and failed. Olaf> Make sure your local archive is mentioned before the rest. I Olaf> maintain a local mirror but it is usually lagging a bit behind Olaf> (especially with unstable). If your sources.list says something Olaf> like: Olaf> deb file:/pub/debian unstable main deb Olaf> http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main It is not this simple; in fact, I think there's an out-and-out bug. I'll report it when I have some time to waste. The problem is that "apt-get update" and "apt-get install" (also upgrade, etc.) make mutually inconsistent assumptions about the structure of the mirror directory. Suppose the entry in sources.list reads deb file:/usr/local/src/debs localdebs main non-free Then "apt-get update" looks for /usr/local/src/debs/dists/localdebs/{main,non-free}/binary-i386/Packages but "apt-get install pysol" looks for /usr/local/src/debs/main/binary-i386/games/pysol_*.deb. I was only able to work around this by setting up the mirror as follows. /usr/local/src/debs---main ^ | | --non-free | | | --dists---localdebs-- | | ------------------------- This is related to the thread earlier this week about the semantics of a trailing slash on the deb URL. Apparently the thorough explanation given still haven't exhausted the topic :-( -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.
