Curt wrote:
On 2012-10-05, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:To summarize: I effectively _HAVE_ the contents of a relevant repository on 8 physically discrete DVDs. I *REQUIRE* that content to reside on a single partition of a single disk in a form acceptable to apt-get. For reasons I'll not go into, any solution requiring networking of any form is irrelevant.The thread below looks edifying for a simple solution to your difficulties, if I'm understanding them correctly (it consists of copying the dvds to disc as "iso" files and using apt-cdrom to create sources accessible by apt-get). http://oldsite.debianhelp.org/node/10486 HTH
Thanks. I'm not sure if that ends up at quite the same point I'm aiming at. I'm a newbie whose methodology ,_at the moment_, is driven more by desire to understand Linux than to than using it.
I was comparing the version of "Debian Repository HOWTO " at http://www.isotton.com/debian/docs/repository-howto/ with the older version which is on debian.org. Initial readings seemed the same. I didn't understand why one was labeled "obsolete". So I started doing a sentence by sentence comparison. That slowed me down enough to start understanding what I was reading ;/ That and having the CD in the drive and looking at the files as I was reading about them.