Re: Building my own apt archive
The easiest way would be to use the Packages.gz from the mirror and the
directory structure as used on the mirror, when you update using that
Packages.gz, it will seem as if there are much more packages, that you
don't all have, however if you don't need them that's not a problem.
Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Moore, Paul wrote:
> Another question on apt...
>
> I've downloaded a lot of .deb files from various places on the Internet, and
> I'd like to put them on a CD or something for safekeeping. It strikes me
> that the best way of doing this would be to put them in some sort of format
> which would allow me to use apt to install off it.
>
> Can somebody point me to a document which explains how to build an apt-style
> archive? I've looked in the manpages, but there isn't anything which
> immediately springs out at me... I think that at the least I need a
> Packages.gz file, but I'm not sure how that gets set up. Also, do I need a
> fixed directory structure?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul.
>
>
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