*- On 30 Dec, Konrad Mierendorff wrote about "Upgrading slinkr1 --> r4" > Hi, > > I'd really like to upgrade but not with apt-get and my 33.6-Modem. > Therefore I downloaded all packages mentioned in > "ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/ChangeLog"; at the local > Universitiy. (I simply "grepped" all lines starting with "dists" -- > please tell me if this is not enough!) > Now I have all the packages on my disk but when I put the tree into > /etc/apt/sources.list and do an "apt-get update" it complains about > missing Packages.gz files. > I tried to put these files together but wasn't very succesfull as there > doesn't seem to be much documentation on this. (My approach was to put > the output of "dpkg --info" executed in a for loop over all packages in > one file, but that didn't work :-( ) > Please help me if there is an easy to build Packages.gz files or give me > a pointer to some usable information. >
Make sure you have the dpkg-dev package installed. cd to parent directory of all your debs. dpkg-scanpackages <dir of debs> /dev/null > <dir of debs>/Packages Then add the following to your sources.list, deb file:<path to parent of Debs>/ <dir of debs>/ Example: All my locally compiled debs are in /usr/local/Debian-Src/Debs cd /usr/local/Debian-Src dpkg-scanpackages Debs /dev/null > Debs/Packages echo "deb file:/usr/local/Debian-Src/ Debs/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update This works for me, there may be other ways to do it. Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
