Re: working with apt-get

[Chris Kenrick <chriskenrick@yahoo.com.au>]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:42:31PM +0100, Tim wrote:
> I have a CD containing packages from security.debian.org of the
> directory structure (eg)
> 
> $ ls -l
> /cdrom/security.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-i386/
> total 221
> - -r--r--r--    1 root     root       180106 Jul 18  2002 Packages
> - -r--r--r--    1 root     root        44895 Jul 18  2002 Packages.gz
> - -r--r--r--    1 root     root          100 Jul 19  2002 Release
> 
> How would I tell apt of the contents of this CD for updating of my
> installed packages?  Should I make a new CD from this one, with a
> different directory structure so apt-cdrom add will identify the packages?
> 
> Thanks, Tim

I'm certainly no expert on this, but reading apt-cdrom's manpage
indicates that it has a --thorough option to look harder for the package
files.  Does apt-cdrom with --thorough work?  If not, you might be able
to use apt-move on the .deb files to create a local debian archive, then
install from that.

- Chris