Re: How to build an apt-repository from a CD set
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:02:39 +1000,
Chris Kenrick <chrisk@aurema.com> wrote:
> Given that hard drives are getting substantially large, it's now quite
> practical to store 7 CDs worth of Woody on the hard drive, rather than
> shuffling CDs. In the past my attempts to cajole the CDs into a usable
> apt repository on the hard drive haven't worked. Any ideas how to do
> this, or tools that do it?
Make an empty directory, copy your CDs into it,
then run apt-ftparchive (in apt-utils) to generate
Packages.gz and Sources.gz .
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