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Re: How to create an auxiliary CD for use with apt?



On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 03:47:39PM +0200, W. Borgert wrote:
>Quoting Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>:
>> To make a simple CD that will work with apt:
>> 
>>  * Create a directory tree containing your packages, starting at /pool
>> 
>>  * Create packages files (using apt-ftparchive or dpkg-scanpackages
>>    and dpkg-scansources)
>
>OK, these points were clear, as I already have a local apt
>repository - just not yet on CD :-)
>
>>  * Create a directory /.disk and a file /.disk/info containing a label
>>    to describe your CD
>
>Cool, that sounds pretty easy!  So there's no need for the files
>base_components, base_installable, and udeb_include, good.

Absolutely, they're just for the installer's use on CD#1.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess

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