Re: apt-get install or upgrade from stored archive
I don't thinthat'll work because the directory structure isn't correct, on
a mirror you got
/dists/<distro>/[main|contrib|non-free]/binary-i386/[base|admin|net|etc]/package.deb
you don't have that with your downloaded packages, the best thing you can
do is go to the downloaded .deb and do dpkg -i *.deb, you might need to
add some force options, like the one to avoid version conflicts /
dependencies, perl and libc6 might give problems, YOU SHOULD ONLY USE
THOSE FORCES TO UPGRADE THOSE 2!!
But I must agree with you that there should be some kind of way to easily
downgrade using .debs on your system and apt-get, perhaps a feature that
should be added to apt-get.... who maintains the package???
Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Well, lets put the question in a more general manner: What steps should be followed to
> avoid this problem in the future? That is, is there any way of keeping the downloaded
> upgrade with the dependency structure and everything else, so that in case of a problem
> the system can be restored by: 1) Installing from CD, and subsequently 2) Using the
> downloaded upgrade?
> My system was mesed up, the file system got all upside down after a few unlucky
> kernel-lilo changes. So I used the rescue floppy from slink and re-installed from zero.
> But I lost all the upgrade!!!! And it really sounds unlikely spending again hours doing
> it, especially because I have all the debs in my hard drive!!!
> Wait a second, what if I run apt-get update pointing to frozen, and the swithch it to
> file:// , would that work?
> I would like to hear opinions before attempting it again.
> Thanx.
>
> Ron Rademaker wrote:
>
> > You should change your sources.list and use file:// instead of ftp or http
> > to install from a local file, however I think the directory structure
> > won't be good AND ther won't be any packages.gz, furthermore you should
> > find some kind of force-downgrade options in apt-get. I think you should
> > use dpkg to downgrade in this case.
> >
> > By the way, what do you mean: messed up the system, what went wrong,
> > perhaps it'll be easier to fix it!
> >
> > Ron Rademaker
> >
> > On Thu, 18 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> > > I had installed slink 2.1, which I upgraded through a my moden
> > > connection after a few days to frozen. I made a backup of the
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives folder in to another partition. After that I
> > > messed up my system, so I had to reinstall 2.1 again. How can I apt-get
> > > upgrade my system to the previous frozen status by using the backed
> > > archive? The problem I see is that apt-get will have troubble
> > > determining the dependencies, without a package.gz file, and there
> > > wasn't any in the archive. Please help. I would hate to go through the
> > > whole downloading thing again. If I fetch the packages.gz file existing
> > > now in frozen, it will probably be different enough to be a problem.
> > > Please give me some ideas for now and for future problems of the same
> > > kind.
> > > (Thanx)(10^6)
> > > Antonio.
> > >
> > >
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