Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:50:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:I routinely work without a viable network connection of any kind. My response was to purchase a eight DVD set of "squeeze". Using the DVD directory structure as an example I have copied the contents of /pool to a 64GB flash drive. I have also copied the directory structure of /dists to the flash drive. I've lost links to: a. creating the packages and packages.gz files.http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_small_public_package_archive
I'm not sure that section answers the exact question I'm attempting to ask. *BUT* I presume the overall document is aimed at typical average sane users. In past "three score and ten" those adjectives have ever been used to describe me ;/
HOWEVER, after browsing the table of contents at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/index.en.html I suspect the posting of a half-dozen questions has been short-circuited. Thank you.
b. how to point apt/synaptic/... to this repository.file:///path/to/repo instead of http://ftp.us.debian.... Osamu PS: I never done this for large archive such as what you indicated.
<Chuckle> I read a blog "somewhere" which commented on small archives vs fully standard compliant archives. Although I'll hold it in my hand, I'm aiming at the later.