Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:12:37PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt. It downloaded a whole
> lot of package files to do this (but dselect, I think, has now deleted
> them).
>
> Now I have a laptop which needs to be upgraded to Slink. It would
> appear that I'm going to have to download all these files again!
>
> What would be nice is to have the option for apt to build up a partial
> mirror of the Slink distribution (or any version for that matter),
> putting each downloaded file in the correct location in a directory
> tree. Of course it would only be a partial mirror because it would
> only download those packages which were to be installed.
>
> The advantage of this is that I could then use this structure to
> install from when upgrading my laptop. This solution would be better
> than the standard mirror solution because this way, only the files
> needed would be downloaded, saving on disk space and internet
> bandwidth.
>
> My guess is that apt doesn't currently have this feature. Are there
> any plans to add it?
>
> My second best option is to use nfs to symlink the laptop's
> /var/cache/apt/archives to the desktop's. This might work --- the
> only problem here is that dselect-apt decides to delete all the files
> in the cache! How can I turn this off???
>
I manually edit the /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install script so that
it moves the files to my /pub/debian directory instead of deleting
them. After I run install, I fire up the laptop and update it from
there. The only problem is, the install script gets overwritten
after each apt upgrade... :/
Mike
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