On Saturday 24 July 2004 06:15 am, David A. Cobb wrote: > [With apology that this duplicates a mail to 'backports'] > > I see in the SOURCES.LIST document that one can use the "file:" > scheme URI to designate a source. > I am in a position where I need to do just that. I cannot get my > nVidia > cardset to work, so I cannot reach the 'net from Linux; I need to use > Windoze for that. > I set up a FAT32/VFAT area to cache all my downloads -- it looks like > a huge but fragmented RSYNC of pieces of the net. I duplicate the > directory structure of my source. > > I set it up in what looked correct, but APTITUDE complains that it > cannot stat. the package list files. I assume that is the > "Packages.gz" or "Sources.gz" file. Also, the way the path looks in
Have you used dpkg-scanpackages (man page)? You can use a local 'pool' of packages if you create the packages files. > the > error message is seriously munged from what it is on disk: looks like > "/" replaced by "." [IIRC] and a few other translations. > > My hypothesis is that I haven't formatted the file:/top/next/third/ . > . . URI correctly, or that I have pointed it to the wrong place in > the tree. Of course, a formally correct URI would need to begin > "file:///top/next . . .". > > Can someone send me a copy of a correctly formatted file URI from > SOURCES.LIST? > > And, as a P.S., do the debian and backport servers / mirrors support > RSYNC? It would surely save me a lot of manual stuff. -- Greg C. Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
