* I.J.W. Wever (I.J.W.Wever@student.tnw.tudelft.nl) [020305 10:39]: > Hi list, > > I've recently installed Debian2.2r5 from a mounted file system > (my windows disk): /mnt/hda5/dl/Linux/dists > > In that directory I have directories /stable and /potato, which are > identical > and both contain all available binaries for a 386 system (for some reason > the install program seemed to need this). I've been playing around with > dselect somewhat, always using that location as source. > > I downloaded the .debs for Kernel2.4.18, glibc2.2.5, and XFree4.1.0 and > want to install these. Now my question: Where is the best place to put them, > how can I easily add them to the dselect 'source path' and do these package > have inherent dependencies that ensure me that the previous kernel, glibc > and Xfree are uninstalled? kernel packages of different versions can coexist peacefully. The postinstall script will set the newly-installed kernel to the default on the next boot, and the old one should be available by typing LinuxOLD on the LILO prompt. Upgrading glibc will upgrade damn near everything else on your system. X 4.x packages can also coexist with X3.x, at least to some degree, but I'd recommend just removing your old X packages after installing the new ones. As for your questions about where to put the packages and stuff -- do you not have a good fast connection? If you can afford to do network installs, it will make keeping up with new packages for security updates and the like much easier. Then you can just ad some deb http lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list and be merry. The reason I suggest that is that if you can do that, your best bet is probably to upgrade your apt and dpkg to the testing versions (it wil require you to upgrade a few other packages as well) and set up an /etc/apt/preferences file. Then you can mix 'n match packages from stable, testing, unstable to your heart's delight. You don't have to store packages from any distro anywhere; they're always right there in the archive available from the net. If you don't have a good network connection that you can use for apt, I think it's a long, hard road ahead. You'll end up having to fetch and install many, many packages manually to keep up with dependencies. It'll be just like running redhat. =) If this is a pretty isolated occurrence, though, and you do want to just have a few packages from unstable and the rest from stable, and you want to go ahead and manually download packages as necessary, your best bet is probably to set up a local file package repository. Here's how I have it done: I keep all the packages in /usr/local/src/debian-local/dists/local/binary-i386 create a symlink to /dev/null in that directory called override.local.gz create a script called something like update-local-debarchive that goes like this: #!/bin/sh cd /usr/local/src/debian-local dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/binary-i386 \ dists/local/binary-i386/override.local.gz \ | gzip -c > dists/local/binary-i386/Packages.gz #EOF Run that script any time you add a package to your local archive. And add a line in your /etc/apt/sources.list that looks like this: deb file://usr/locla/src/debian-local local . Then after you update, dselect and apt will know about the packages in your local archive just like the ones on the official debian archives (http, ftp, cdrom). I use this system to maintain packages that I build locally, like kernel-images and specially-patched packages, or debianized external sources. I hope that was sorta what you were looking for (or that it might at least help someone else reading it =) good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume/
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