Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?
The apt-cd package may help here. Also when searching for tutorials I
find it useful to append "tutorial OR howto" to google searches for
problems like this. The howtos get you into another probably useful
category. On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:55:10 -0600
> > Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > To borrow from the hardware world, man pages would correspond to
> > > Product Specification. What I'm looking for would correspond more
> > > with an Application Note.
> > >
> >
> > I think the magic word you want is 'tutorial'. You probably also want
> > to set time limits, as one of the most useless things in the world is
> > an obsolete tutorial. Man pages on the web are usually current.
> >
> > If you want something a bit unusual, such as an obscure freeRADIUS
> > application, you probably want to track down half a dozen tutorials,
> > and try to read between the lines. It's surprising how much can be left
> > out of a set of 'step-by-step' instructions, but different people
> > generally leave out different things.
> >
>
> I think you just hit on why 'tutorials' did not come to mind. The Debian
> tutorials I've seen have another problem in my situation - taking the reader
> from one specific starting point to one specific end point. That normally is
> not a problem for the reader as start/end points are aimed at majority.
>
> My problem with the dpkg-scanpackages man pages is that I don't seem to be
> able to apply it correctly to my situation. I wish to have a local repository
> whose structure mimics the distribution DVDs.
>
> I have a partition dedicated to my local repository. It is mounted as
> /media/repo6 .
> {I'm working on my Squeeze machine at the moment. Eventually I'll dual boot
> Wheezy and Squeeze. Then I'll add another repository partition mounted as
> /media/repo7 etc.}
>
> Directory structure is:
> /media/repo6/dists/squeeze/contrib/binary-i386
> /media/repo6/dists/squeeze/contrib/binary-i386/release
> /media/repo6/dists/squeeze/main
> /media/repo6/dists/squeeze/main/binary-i386
> /media/repo6/dists/squeeze/main/binary-i386/release
> /media/repo6/pool
> /media/repo6/pool/squeeze
> /media/repo6/pool/squeeze/contrib
> /media/repo6/pool/squeeze/contrib/... {directories containing deb files}
> /media/repo6/pool/squeeze/main
> /media/repo6/pool/squeeze/main/... {directories containing deb files}
>
> I need appropriate Packages.gz under
> /media/repo6/dists/squeeze/contrib/binary-i386
> and
> /media/repo6/dists/squeeze/main/binary-i386 .
>
> I also need appropriate lines to add to sources.list
>
>
>
>
>
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