On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:30:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've got an official CD-ROM set of Debian 2.2r2 i386. I'd
>like to set up an in-house HTTP mirror to use for
>installations and upgrades, particularly for machines without
>CD-ROM drives.
>
>I tried copying the contents of the 3 CDs into a directory
>which I made available via HTTP, but when I hit this mirror
>from a machine running version 2.1 with
>"apt-get upgrade ; apt-get -s dist-upgrade"
>it downloads package files okay but only wants to upgrade
>xntp3.
>
>Is there a way I can properly set up this HTTP mirror from
>the CDs? My net connection is too slow to mirror the normal
>way.
What you're seeing will be caused by the Packages files overwriting
each other. Cat together the Packages files from each CD instead of
just copying...
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