Re: Upgrading slinkr1 --> r4
*- On 30 Dec, Konrad Mierendorff wrote about "Upgrading slinkr1 --> r4"
> Hi,
>
> I'd really like to upgrade but not with apt-get and my 33.6-Modem.
> Therefore I downloaded all packages mentioned in
> "ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/ChangeLog"; at the local
> Universitiy. (I simply "grepped" all lines starting with "dists" --
> please tell me if this is not enough!)
> Now I have all the packages on my disk but when I put the tree into
> /etc/apt/sources.list and do an "apt-get update" it complains about
> missing Packages.gz files.
> I tried to put these files together but wasn't very succesfull as there
> doesn't seem to be much documentation on this. (My approach was to put
> the output of "dpkg --info" executed in a for loop over all packages in
> one file, but that didn't work :-( )
> Please help me if there is an easy to build Packages.gz files or give me
> a pointer to some usable information.
>
Make sure you have the dpkg-dev package installed.
cd to parent directory of all your debs.
dpkg-scanpackages <dir of debs> /dev/null > <dir of debs>/Packages
Then add the following to your sources.list,
deb file:<path to parent of Debs>/ <dir of debs>/
Example:
All my locally compiled debs are in /usr/local/Debian-Src/Debs
cd /usr/local/Debian-Src
dpkg-scanpackages Debs /dev/null > Debs/Packages
echo "deb file:/usr/local/Debian-Src/ Debs/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
This works for me, there may be other ways to do it.
Brian Servis
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