local repository, again :(

[Lutz Kittler <Lutz.Kittler@sse-erfurt.de>]

nuk writes:
 > Hello, there.  New guy here.
 > 
 > I really hate to dig up a dead horse, as I've been looking at the archives
 > of the debian-user list and going over the threads on apt-move over the
 > last several months or so, but I'm still hitting a brick wall.
 > 
 > What I have:
 > 
 > So far one old laptop, running Debian 3.0 as a test platform, on my home
 > LAN.  Connectivity across the LAN is Fast Ethernet, but from the gateway
 > out to the Net is 56k dialup (more or less unlimited time, though).  I
 > have six binary CDs for Debian 3.0, and I have everything installed, plus
 > I set up /etc/apt/sources.list so that anything I need from non-free,
 > contrib, non-US, etc can be d/l'd as needed, plus security updates.
 > 
 > What I want:
 > 
 > Some way to turn those 6 cds into a local repository so that I don't have
 > to sit here playing human jukebox.  This is an old laptop w/ a busted
 > screen, so most access is via ssh.  I'd love to stick it in an out of the
 > way corner and never have to touch it.
 > 
 > I keep reading about apt-move, and I can see how it works for taking a
 > local d/l /var/cach/apt/ whatever and turning it into a source for the
 > sources.list to be pointed at.  I don't see (maybe I'm blind) how todo
 > this w/ the six CDs I have.  Someone smack me w/ a clue-by-four if it is
 > blatantly obvious, but I'm not getting it.  I can always make iso images
 > from the CDs, and mount them via loopback, and point sources.list at
 > those, but it seems a wee bit of an ugly solution, plus I'd like to
 > be able to trim certain parts that I *don't* want to mirror locally, like
 > non-US language stuff, etc.
 > 
 > If someone can help me thru this, I'd greatly appreciate it.
 > 
 > nuk
 > 

Hi,

I copied all my cdroms to a nfs-server ( hyperion):

mount /cdrom
cd /cdrom
cp -av . /netsave/dists/debian/woody/cd1
 ...

fstab on debian clients:

hyperion:/netsave/dists/debian /debian_cds nfs  ro,user,bg,noauto 0 0


Added in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb file:/debian_cds/woody/cd1/ stable contrib main non-free
 ...

Then apt-get update.


 lutz