Re: Debian update CDs

["J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl>]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Tobias Buchal wrote:

>    How can I create an CD image which I can use as additional (update) CD
>    in a Debian CD set ?
>    ( the new and updated packages can be recognized y comparing the
>      newest official Package files and my dpkg status file)
>    My Idea is to generate once in 3 month one CD which contains the updates 
>    only. (maybe one for the "stable" tree and one for the "unstable" tree.)

I guess you want i386 only (adding other architectures is more complicated).
This is a possible strategy:
- Download Packages(.gz) file from mirror
- Compare with Packages file downloaded when generating previous CD,
  but only the Filename: field (grep Filename: | sort  and then
  diff | grep '> ')
- Download the new packages, and place them in a tree that matches what
  you see on the Official CDs
- Use dpkg-scanpackages to make a Packages file (and gzip < Packages > .gz)
- Burn CD
- apt-cdrom add

This should work, but I never tried myself ;-)  The only debian-specific
program is dpkg-scanpacakges, but that should be easily portable to other
distros (simply copying it may work fine).


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer


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