On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > I purchase complete DVD sets. > I am doing multiple clean installs to determine my "optimum" > solution. > Shuffling DVDs became a pain. I set aside a partition for myown > repository. > I copied the /dists and /pool directories from all DVDs in the > distribution set to that partition - it is mounted as > /media/repo6.
OK, here's a test I just ran, which seems to work, as I'll show below. It is my understanding that, for your purposes of an offline mirror created by simply dumping the contents of the various DVDs that you have, you only need the "pool" directories. First, to emulate your DVD pool scenario, I copied a subset of pool/..., the "z" directory from my pool/main/ directory, to a temporary location: mkdir /media/repo6 cp -r /my/full/mirror/pool/main/z /media/repo6 cd /media/repo6 mkdir -p pool/main mv z pool/main In your case, you would for each DVD insert and copy off the files something like as follows: cp -rf /media/cdrom/debian/pool /media/repo6 Next, I ran the following command (many warnings are produced): dpkg-scanpackages . | gzip - > Packages.gz Note that I am still in the /media/repo6 directory. Next I added the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list, commenting out all other lines in that file: deb file:/media/repo6 ./ Finally I ran the following command: apt-get update and got this output: Ign file: ./ InRelease Ign file: ./ Release.gpg Ign file: ./ Release Ign file: ./ Translation-en_AU Ign file: ./ Translation-en Reading package lists... Done So, using this procedure, seems to work for me. In the past, I have used this same procedure, using the DVD set, as you are using, and it works just fine. Good luck Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSSWWR0KELhhVhq85mKCw15jRLxAkO+5=-fujrnsy0c...@mail.gmail.com
