Anyone have more insight on this? Here's a question I asked Joost & his reply:
> I've installed apt-move, and I've got my mirrors directory set up. Each > time I run apt or deselect I decline to let it remove downloaded files > and apt-move update. > > So far so good, but when I apt-get update it doesn't use the mirror. > The first lines of an update look like this: > > Ign file: woody/contrib Release > Ign file: woody/main Release > Ign file: woody/non-free Release > Ign file: woody/non-US/main Release > Ign file: woody/non-US/non-free Release > > I'm sure my sources.list file is messed up. Can you tell me how to fix > it? You probably need to create a Release file, but I don't know the name of the script that can do this. It may be called apt-ftparchive, in the apt-utils package. The Release file appears to be an apt thing. If you check the debian archive site manually with a webbrowser, you can see what these files look like from the inside. It lists the Packages files and a checksum for their content. There is in turn also a signature for the Release file, but I don't thinks that is used by default. I found some more info for you: http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd-0104/msg00080.html > Here's a glimpse of my /mirrors dir: > > $ ls /mirrors/debian/dists/woody/ > contrib main non-US non-free > > And here's my sources.list file: > > # My attempt to get apt-move mirror to work... > deb file:///mirrors/debian woody contrib main non-free > deb file:///mirrors/debian woody/non-US main non-free Looks okay. Cheers, Joost
