On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Admin wrote:
> I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
> download binariy and source files one at a time from over the internet.
> Being new to Debian I tried to understand this process and came to
> understand that all binary files are considered to be a "package" sort
> of wrapped with dependency information. Apparently, when the package is
> unwrapped these dependencies are determined to exist on the present
> system or are required to be added.
>
> In other words, I need a Debian system up and running (which I don't
> have at the present time) and even then the packaged binaries and
> sources will be unpacked and placed into the system. What I was after
> was a kind of mirror located where ever I wanted on my LAN and I could
> install all or some of them.. I take it that the network installer puts
> together a basic system and then proceeds to install other packages as
> directed by some kind of menu. This is fine, if that is how it happens,
> but I want my own updateable archive from which this "network
> installer" can feed .
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Could I simply do an FTP of some
> Debian mirror? What I don't like about this FTP idea or the installer
> as far as that goes is that many of the applications I want are not
> available except from their development sites. Examples are TCL,
> Python, Lisp, and many others; It lookis like I would have to (separate
> from the installer and separate from the FTP ) gather these binaries and
> sources one at a time site by site. Or have I got something very wrong???
>
> Also, what complicates my effort is that I have a very low band witdth
> to the Internet having to use a dial up connection from a rural area up
> here in Alberta Canada.. For example, it took me a week to download the
> "network installer".
>
>
> Thanks Ted.
Debian binary packages contain the binary files and metadata like what
other packages are needed for this program to work. When you install one
packages, it determines all of the required dependencies and installs
all of them in the correct order.
You can create an apt cache to store one copy of deb files so that other
installs can use this. apt-cacher can do this.
Debian archive->main machine+->other machine
+->other machine
+->other machine
+->other machine
Description: apt-cache is a caching proxy system for Debian package and
source files Apt-cacher performs caching of .deb and source packages
which have been downloaded by local users. It is most useful for local
area networks with slow internet uplink.
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