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Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy



On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:51:17PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:19:11PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > On 06-Mar-2002 Markus Grunwald wrote:
> > > Now I do have a lot of files on the apt-move mirrors, wich I would like
> > > to reuse for apt-proxy. Is this possible?
> > 
> > Should be able to just copy them over.
> 
> Last time I checked apt-move, it did not recreate the same directory
> structure as the Debian archive - in particular the pools structure was not
> reproduced.  apt-proxy creates an exact mirror of the archive, so it would
> not necessarily find all the .debs if they were copied over.
> 
> There is a solution in the latest version of the apt-proxy package in
> development, which is on Sourceforge at
> 
> http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/apt-proxy/unstable
> 
> It's a script called apt-proxy-import, which moves .debs from a given
> directory into the correct cache directory.  I'd be happy to receive
> feedback if you try it out and have any problems.

I would like to try it, but I (well, my nameserver) can't seem to
resolve apt-proxy.sourceforge.net at the moment. Is it too big to post
here?

-- 
Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux mus 2.4.17mvz2 #1 Wed Feb 27 17:41:43 CET 2002 i686 unknown

Matijs



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