Re: problem getting packages for slink

[Tres Hofmeister <tres@rap.ucar.edu>]

On 2000.08.18, Vincent Tam wrote:
: 
: We have some servers still running old version of slink and don't
: want them to potato yet.  However we still want to update our slink
: distribution.
: After we change the apt-get sources.list to:
:
: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free
:
: And updated the package information, while the apt-get try to download
: update packages, it refer to "main", the potato, instead of "slink"!!
:
: What can we do?

	I don't know for sure, but apt seems to cache the retrieved
Packages information in some kind of binary format in these files:

    /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
    /var/cache/apt/srccache.bin

	I'm not sure how you would modify these, but if you've got
a local slink mirror, you can work around the problem.  Modify the
Packages files by hand, e.g.:

# Don't forget contrib and non-free...
cd $YOUR_MIRROR_ROOT/dists/slink/main/binary-i386
cp -a Packages.gz Packages-dist.gz	# Just in case...
gzip -dc Packages.gz |\
    sed 's|^Filename: dists/stable/\(.*\)|Filename: dists/slink/\1|' |\
    gzip -c >Packages.gz


	Then apt-get is happy again, for the time being.

-- 
Tres Hofmeister <tres@rap.ucar.edu>      http://www.rap.ucar.edu/~tres/
Research Applications Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research