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. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: CDMA world domination AK-47 Becker Skipjack Lon Horiuchi
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