Re: make an updates CD?

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
>[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
>In article <5bKrS-6Qh-25@gated-at.bofh.it>, Hodgins Family wrote:
>>
>> This isn't EXACTLY what you are looking for but it could give you some 
>> ideas. This is an Ubuntu page, I now, but the commands shouldn't be so very 
>> different from Debian (if at all!)
>
>showthread.php?t=7455 gives me some people wondering the
>same thing, and generating a Packages file, and creating
>a depository *directory*.  (There's also some stuff about
>Synaptic, whatever that is.)  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.

Have a look at "update-cd" in the debian-cd package. It's the script
that I use to create the r0->rX CDs when we do point releases. It
should do almost exactly what you need...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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