Lo, on Friday, March 29, Richard Cobbe did write: > Greetings, all. > > I know this is a FAQ, but I can't find the answer anywhere. > > So, I'm in the process of upgrading from stable to testing (again---the > first time, somebody crapped on /var/lib/dpkg/available, and I couldn't > repair it. There was a large chunk missing out of the middle, so far as > I could tell). > > So, I dutifully saved all the .deb files I downloaded during the first > attempt, and I used apt-move to move them off to another directory. > I've added the local mirror to sources.list, but neither apt-get nor > dselect appears to see these files. What step have I missed? > > When I do a dselect update or an apt-get update, I see messages that > appear to indicate that it is ignoring the Release file in my local > mirror. I've rebooted into potato, so I don't have the error message > handy. In any case, when I install packages that I do have locally, > dselect still downloads them off the 'net.
<SNIP> Sorry; I should have pointed out in my first post that cd /home/mirrors/debian find . -name Release\* -print doesn't find anything. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]