Greetings, all. I know this is a FAQ, but I can't find the answer anywhere.
So, I'm in the process of upgrading from stable to testing (again---the first time, somebody crapped on /var/lib/dpkg/available, and I couldn't repair it. There was a large chunk missing out of the middle, so far as I could tell). So, I dutifully saved all the .deb files I downloaded during the first attempt, and I used apt-move to move them off to another directory. I've added the local mirror to sources.list, but neither apt-get nor dselect appears to see these files. What step have I missed? When I do a dselect update or an apt-get update, I see messages that appear to indicate that it is ignoring the Release file in my local mirror. I've rebooted into potato, so I don't have the error message handy. In any case, when I install packages that I do have locally, dselect still downloads them off the 'net.
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb file:///home/mirrors/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://download.sourceforge.net/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://download.sourceforge.net/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main non-free contrib deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main non-free contrib
# Configuration file for the apt-move script. # # You should modify the following configuration to suit your system. # See the apt-move(8) manpage for information about these settings. # # The defaults for this file are simply the settings I currently use. # Configuration for apt-move script -------------------------------------- # The sites in ``/etc/apt/sources.list'' that you wish to mirror. #APTSITES="debian.midco.net non-us.debian.org" APTSITES="mirrors.kernel.org download.sourceforge.net non-us.debian.org" # The architectures that your site contain, separated with spaces. ARCHS="alpha arm hurd-i386 i386 m68k powerpc sparc" # The absolute path to your debian directory (top of your local mirror). # This MUST appear as the first entry of your sources.list if you use # sync or mirror. LOCALDIR=/home/mirrors/debian # The distribution you want to mirror (see the apt-move(8) manpage for # details) DIST=potato # The package types you want to mirror. # Possible values are: binary, source, and both (use only one). PKGTYPE=binary # The full (absolute) path to your local cache of package files. The default # will work for the apt-get packages, unless you've reconfigured apt. FILECACHE=/var/cache/apt/archives # The full (absolute) path to your local cache of Packages files. The # default will work for the apt-get Packages, unless you've reconfigured apt. LISTSTATE=/var/lib/apt/lists # Do you want apt-move to delete obsolete files from your mirror? (yes/no) DELETE=no # Maximum percentage of files to delete during a normal run. MAXDELETE=20 # Only move packages if its version matches "exactly" with the master files. # (yes/no) STRICTMOVE=no # End Configuration ------------------------------------------------------
Any advice would be very welcome. Thanks, Richard
