Re: How to build an apt-repository from a CD set
Sorry for the long delay, I just got the woody CDs by mail order.
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:16:30 +0200 (CEST),
ernst-magne <ernst@bluezone.no> wrote:
> 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?
If you have an official CD, it already has Packages.gz (or Sources.gz),
so you don't need apt-ftparchive . If you copied the CD to
/something/archive , the apt line will be
deb file:/something/archive woody contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
Replace "deb" with "deb-src" for the source CD. Remove the non-US
part if your CD is the US version.
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