Re: debian CD repository
thanks all and specially João Luis Meloni Assirati for providing such
brief instruction and advices. would please be kind enough and share
me a howto for creating a mirror server for LAN. which auto sync and
updates all the new packages.
Thanks,
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:58 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati
<assirati@nonada.if.usp.br> wrote:
> Em 05-03-2013 07:27, Muhammad Yousuf Khan escreveu:
>
>> i have downloaded all the Debian 6 DVDs from the repo. but as per my
>> knowledge when i run "apt-get install<packagename>" it directly go to
>> internet how come i tell apt-get or dpkg to install it from DVDs and
>> secondly it should ask for the correct DVD like Microsoft does. for
>> example. if samba is placed in DVD 8 is should prompt me that insert
>> DVD 8. same way like microsoft does.
>
>
> This happens because in some moment (perhaps at the installation) you
> configured the installation to use a network mirror for Debian packages. It
> is good to have network mirrors configured because they have updated
> software, which may not be the case for Debian or Microsoft DVDs.
>
> It may be happening two things:
>
> 1. You have both your DVDs and a network mirror configured as a source for
> packages, but the cdroms are outdated and apt-get prefers packages from the
> network as they have updated versions in relation to the packages that are
> in your DVDs.
>
> 2. You have only network mirrors configured as source packages.
>
> To decide which case you have, open a terminal and do the command
>
> cat /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> If this file has 6 lines starting as 'deb cdrom:', then you have situation
> 1. Otherwise, 2.
>
> If you have situation 1 and you want to get only packages from the DVDs,
> never from the network, you can do the following: first, move sources.list
> away:
>
> mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.OLD
>
> then insert the first DVD and do the command
>
> apt-cdrom add
>
> and repeat the last command for every DVD you have. All these command mus be
> run as root.
>
> If you have situation 1, you can also choose to maintain the network
> mirrors configured as source of packages, but download newer DVDs. The
> newest are version 6.0.7 for Debian "stable", and then run
>
> apt-cdrom add
>
> for all of them without moving away the file sources.list. However,
> downloading new DVDs may not be very advantageous, because you will end up
> downloading a lot of packages in the DVDs that you will never use. But it
> can be useful if your network connection is intermittent or you will use the
> DVDs in a lot of computers.
>
> Situation 2 is similar. If you don't want packages from the network, then
> execute
>
> mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.OLD
>
> otherwise keep it. Then execute
>
> apt-cdrom add
>
> for every DVD you already have.
>
> João Luis.
>
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