Re: Creating a local repos

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 01:32:50AM +0600, Abu Zaher wrote:
> I'm trying to create a local repos from the files downloaded in
> /var/cache/apt/archives with apt-move. After installing apt-move and
 
> deb file:///mirrors/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
> 
> Now if i try 2 install/reinstall a package that i know already in my
> local repos, apt-get again fetches that file from ftp.debian.org
> whereas it should be fetching that from my local repos and install
> that instanly. But if I remove ftp.debian.org and the other entries
> from sources.list, the packages gets installed from my local repos.
> 
> My question is obvious, am I missing some steps?
> 

I don't know. 

Just curious, why not use apt-proxy?

Doug.