On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 01:08 -0500, Nathan Kroll wrote: > We have a private local debian mirror to be able to update our entire > server farm without stealing masive amounts of bandwidth from someone > else and we would like to figure out how to put the .deb packages we > make on the local mirror so that we can have the servers recognize > them as regular debs and update them when we add a newer version to > the mirror. > > We have no problems making the debs, but I gooled around and can't > find any instructions or guidance on how to produce the package lists > and everything else that is required to putting custom debs on a > mirror. > > Does anyone know how to do this or of some place I can find > instructions? Even if someone know how to make an entire separate deb > source for these, that would be fine too. I'm just looking for any > way to simply add another line in the sources.list or something so > that our custom package is considered when we conduct an apt-get > upgrade. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Nate Kroll > I would just create a new repository so it doesn't interfere with the mirror and _real_ Debian packages. All you have to do is setup the hierarchy of directories, add your packages, and run dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources on the binary and source directories respectively. It's a ten minute task to setup. If you setup a trivial one (single architecture) then it's really a breeze. http://www.l0t3k.net/biblio/howto/en/debian-repository-howto/ -- Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu>
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