On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:22:21 +1000 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:09:08PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > In the past month, I've grabbed updates to sarge, and have them
> > "archived" onto cdrom.
> >
> > Now that I've re-installed woody, and upgraded back to sarge, how do
> > I get apt-get to see these updated files, so I can save a bit of
> > time sing a dialup internet connection.
> >
> > How do I create a cdrom, that apt-get will know about?
> >
> > Is there a HOWTO somewhere
>
> You can use the 'debian-cd' package to generate CD images that apt can
> use. Just configure and run it (you will HAVE to read the
> documentation) and then use 'apt-cdrom add' to tell apt about the CD.
> If you have the .debs on disk, tho, you can create an apt'able archive
> by running 'dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages' in the dir
> containing them (it will recurse into subdirectories) and then
> pointing apt at it with a line like this in your /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> deb file:///path/to/debs ./
>
> Don't forget to run 'apt-get update'. Also, apt-proxy can be very
> handy for dialup users, especially if you have more than one Debian
> system.
>
Thanks. I ran, and reran it many time yesterday, to make sure it did
what I think it's supposed to do.
I burnt a cdrom, with everything in the / directory, and the Packages.gz
reflected this.
I ran apt-setup, point it to this new cdrom, and when finished ran
"apt-get update", there were no errors reported, and nothing in dmesg or
"tail val/log/messages".
I then ran "apt-get upgrade", and was told that there was 14.+ meg of
files to be needed, and it started trying to download them.
If things worked as I think they should, I know I shouldn't think ;-),
should it try and grab the files from the cdrom first?
Thanks
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