Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages
On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 07:11:24 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> > I purchase complete DVD sets.
> > I am doing multiple clean installs to determine my "optimum"
> > solution.
> > Shuffling DVDs became a pain. I set aside a partition for myown
> > repository.
> > I copied the /dists and /pool directories from all DVDs in the
> > distribution set to that partition - it is mounted as
> > /media/repo6.
I've been following this for a while. How hard would it be to create a local
web site that mirrors the essential parts of, say, ftp.us.debian.org? Then
tell net install to load from that host. Would the net install then function
as expected (albeit somewhat quicker)?
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