Re: make an updates CD?
Hey Cameron:
(There's also some stuff about
Synaptic, whatever that is.)
Think of Synaptic as a GUI for apt-get (no flames from purists, please!)
That's neater than just
copying all the deb files from my apt/archives to his,
but it still doesn't get me something I could put on
an isofs so that apt-cdrom would understand it.
"Make a CD which apt-cdrom will accept" is the part
I still haven't found.
The method I gave you the link to would give a repository in your home
directory using a CD (or a floppy) as just an intermediate to transfer the
files.
If you really want the CD to be the "repository" then I would suggest that
you:
1) copy the files from the cache on the downloading computer to another
location-- maybe /home/cameron/CDrepository/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/
2) cd into CDrepository and run dpkg-scanpackages
dists/sarge/main/binary-i386 /dev/null >Packages
3) then run cp Packages dists/warty/main/binary-i386/
4) burn CDrepository (and everything beneath it) to a CD
4) try apt-cdrom to see if it is "acceptable"
Unless someone else says otherwise, I don't see why this won't work.
Rob
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