Re: apt-mirror trouble when using local repo

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On 4/10/07, David E. Fox <dfox@m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:59:15 +0200
> "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got Debian DVD Etch src iso files which I'd like loop-mount and use
> > as my repo sources for apt-mirror to use. This is so that I don't have
>
> EMFBI, but wouldn't it be easier to use apt-cdrom to add the dvd as a
> source for later installs rather than an apt-mirror solution & a
> loopback mount? Seems to be more work than needed. OTOH when I had a
> cd-less system and Mandrake, I had all available ISOs loopback mounted
> for exactly that purpose - although each ISO was still listed as a cdrom
> source, rather than a mirror source per se.

Maybe me not understand, but thing is I don't have them burned yet. I
think there's some bug in apt-mirror, and having lost interest decided
to modify debmirror to only download deb-src stuff.

note: I tried apt-mirror only because it allows deb-src-only downloads.