Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

[Richard Cobbe <cobbe@airmail.net>]

Lo, on Friday, March 29, Richard Cobbe did write:

> Greetings, all.
> 
> I know this is a FAQ, but I can't find the answer anywhere.
> 
> So, I'm in the process of upgrading from stable to testing (again---the
> first time, somebody crapped on /var/lib/dpkg/available, and I couldn't
> repair it.  There was a large chunk missing out of the middle, so far as
> I could tell).
> 
> So, I dutifully saved all the .deb files I downloaded during the first
> attempt, and I used apt-move to move them off to another directory.
> I've added the local mirror to sources.list, but neither apt-get nor
> dselect appears to see these files.  What step have I missed?
> 
> When I do a dselect update or an apt-get update, I see messages that
> appear to indicate that it is ignoring the Release file in my local
> mirror.  I've rebooted into potato, so I don't have the error message
> handy.  In any case, when I install packages that I do have locally,
> dselect still downloads them off the 'net.

<SNIP>

Sorry; I should have pointed out in my first post that

cd /home/mirrors/debian
find . -name Release\* -print

doesn't find anything.

Richard


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