Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler)]

Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

> Questions:
> 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to
> perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above?
> 2:) Perhaps some other feature can be added to apt-get to allow this
> reconstruction to occur in a smooth way? That would save bunches of
> bandwidth, etc, etc...

Read the docs about dpkg-scanpackages (which creates a Packages file) and
about apt-get (use a file:// line in /etc/apt/sources.list).


  Ulf