Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-17 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:24:51PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > and your L*.gz files are for your own "time stamping" > and status checking ? Something like that. It's just a flat list of the *.deb files in the mirror /a/l, that's why it's called L*.gz ("list"). It's so I can tell what

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya william On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > I looked at apt-move but I didn't want a http based mirror. the local mirror can be anywhere but okay on not using httpd/ftp > /a "this is all related to apt" okay on the directory subtreee ... make it according to the scripts > I c

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > /a/o/YYMMDD_HHNNSS/*.deb - the debs which were replaced at > > okay... i'm confused ... what does each subdir dor ?? Facilitates rollback, similar to snapshot.debian.net. It goes like this: apt-get update aptitude upgrade /a/u <--- s

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:08:25PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > /var/lib/cache into /home/httpd/local-deb-mirror ? I looked at apt-move but I didn't want a http based mirror. I access my via file protocol. My scripts are a hack. I lik

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > I've posted these a bunch: > > /a/l/*.deb - The set of .debs which is the "current" plus "new" >dpkg-scanpackages is run on this > /a/o/YYMMDD_HHNNSS/*.deb - the debs which were replaced at >HH:NN:SS on MM/DD/20YY

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:52:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > By its very operation it writes only the latest, yes? Yes, that's a built-in feature that comes for free, and is the real magic. The rest is incidental. > > Then what exactly are those last 2 steps you mention? I've posted these

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system. I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size. I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed. I have a s

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system. I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size. I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed. I have a s

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system. > I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size. I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed. I have a script that moves /v

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: Boy, BootCD is one superslick package. Used it with a debootstrap chroot. It just works, seriously. I might finally be able to give my friends and family a LiveCD that will entice them to switch. A Kernel that works just for them, Fluxbox, Firefox, MPlayer, Java, OpenO