Re: Copying a deb repository to local disk
Hello,
I am no expert on atp lines. I have (for local files):
deb file:/debian stable main
Then run apt-get update. If the tree in /debian is the same as on the ftp
sites, apt-get update should give no errors. Then you are ready to
upgrade.
An alternative way is to unpack the packages one by one and see what the
dependencies are. Then unpack the dependencies, and so on, until dpkg
stops complaining.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 Harald.Iwe@ngi.no wrote:
> I am trying to install potato on my home computer. Since my graphical
> hardware (Matrox millenium G450) is not supported in XFree3 I have to
> install/upgrade to Xfree4. Unfortunately I have no internet acess yet, so I
> have made a copy of the reprository at
> http://people.debian.org/~branden/woody/i386/ on my local HD in the
> directory /debian/woody/i386/
>
> Next I have added the line "deb file:/debian/ woody/$(ARCH)/" to my
> /etc/apt/sources.list file. And the Packages file (from ~branden) has been
> put in the /debian/woody/i386/ directory.
>
> When I start dselect the update command should update the database of
> avaialable packages to include my local repository. Then the select command
> should come up with a section with updated and obsolote packages, right ?
>
> Since the Filename line for each package in the Package file reads
> "Filename: woody/i386/<package-name> it should not be necessary to edit
> this file, right ?
>
> I am asking before actually trying it out because I fear I otherwise will
> mess up the database. But maybe I'm to scary ?
>
> --
> Harald Iwe
>
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