Re: Creating a non-free/contrib cd image...
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Ludovico Cavedon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:13:54PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Ludovico Cavedon wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:14:36PM +0200, Ludovico Cavedon wrote:
> > > > I downloaded the tree official i386 debian cd-images.
> > > > Now I'd like to make another CD including all the
> > > > packages I don't have yet (these are all non-free and
> > > > the non-US depending on non-free, right)?
> > >
> > > Err, sorry, not non-US, but contrib.
> >
> > With a good FTP program, fetch the entire
> > {contrib,non-free,non-US/non-free}/binary-{i386,all}/
>
> First of all, thanks for your help.
> What I'd like to do, is to avoid downloading the packages I have
> already got (I've got a 56k dialup connection).
>
> I think I could download all non-free, non-US/non-free pacakges,
> then, comparing the two Packages file (the one I have and the one
> on the ftp site), decide what contrib packages I need.
Yes, that's possible. But then you must make your own Packages (& .gz) file
with "dpkg-scanpackages dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386 override.contrib >
dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/Packages" (and override.contrib is in
project/indices on the FTP site IIRC). Run that command from the top-level of
the to-be-CD tree. And "gzip -9 < Packages > Packages.gz" of course.
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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