Re: How to build an apt-repository from a CD set
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Oohara Yuuma wrote:
> 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
I'm a newbe to debian so I'm wondering, when the folder is created, and
the cd's are copied to /something/archive, can you the just run
apt-ftparchive from within that folder?
And what will then be the sources.list?
/ernst
> Packages.gz and Sources.gz .
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