Using APT with a local mirror
[With apology that this duplicates a mail to 'backports']
I see in the SOURCES.LIST document that one can use the "file:" scheme
URI to designate a source.
I am in a position where I need to do just that. I cannot get my
nVidia
cardset to work, so I cannot reach the 'net from Linux; I need to use
Windoze for that.
I set up a FAT32/VFAT area to cache all my downloads -- it looks like a
huge but fragmented RSYNC of pieces of the net. I duplicate the
directory structure of my source.
I set it up in what looked correct, but APTITUDE complains that it
cannot stat. the package list files. I assume that is the
"Packages.gz" or "Sources.gz" file. Also, the way the path looks in
the
error message is seriously munged from what it is on disk: looks like
"/" replaced by "." [IIRC] and a few other translations.
My hypothesis is that I haven't formatted the file:/top/next/third/ . .
. URI correctly, or that I have pointed it to the wrong place in the
tree. Of course, a formally correct URI would need to begin
"file:///top/next . . .".
Can someone send me a copy of a correctly formatted file URI from
SOURCES.LIST?
And, as a P.S., do the debian and backport servers / mirrors support
RSYNC? It would surely save me a lot of manual stuff.
--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great
sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!
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