Re: build a CD from varous repositories
On Saturday 07 November 2009, Geronimo Ma. Hernandez wrote:
> Hello and thank you for your support.
>
> > Try 'debmirror' (or one of the similar packages).
>
> I already used your script (mirror-sync) which wrappes debmirror.
> The point is, that (from my understanding) debmirror only works with
> blacklists (--exclude).
> ... and so far, I don't know, what I should exclude.
That's why I added the second link. See my last post there. It has some
examples of what could be excluded.
> I would like to use that file to create my local partial mirror - cause
> I'm only interested in that packages plus their dependencies - no matter
> how many CD-images I'll have to create.
That's very extreme... I don't think you could still call that a useful
mirror. Debmirror is not the tool for that. Don't know of any
alternatives.
> Can the apt-get environment be used to create a local mirror that is
> usable to build a CD(-set)? Or can I combine various tools to solve
> that? I don't fear about writing scripts - the point is, I don't know,
> how I could solve the problem.
Can't help you there. Sorry.
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