Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

2013-11-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/8/13, Richard Owlett wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I purchase complete DVD sets. .. >>> Shuffling DVDs became a pain. I set aside a partition for myown >>> repository. .. >> OK, here's a test I just ran, which seems to work, as I'll show below. ..

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

2013-11-07 Thread Richard Owlett
Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett 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 th

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

2013-11-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Neal Murphy wrote: > I've been following this for a while. How hard would it be to create a local > web site that mirrors the essential parts of, say, ftp.us.debian.org? Then > tell net install to load from that host. Would the net install then function > as expected (albeit somewhat quicker)?

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

2013-11-06 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 07:11:24 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett 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

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

2013-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett 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 > distributi