Here I want to clone machines from a parent; with a script that installs packages from a list file automatically. In order to speed up the process, I will prepare the /var/cache/apt/archives with all .deb packages.
Okay, this works. I also created the pseudo-Java package as described (e.g. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142), and copied it there as well. What is not so nice is: apt-get autoclean would remove it from there as shown here: # apt-get -s autoclean Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Del sun-j2sdk1.5 1.5.0+update04 [65.2MB] How can I 'register' it with apt-get as *installed* and latest package; so that apt-get does not insist any longer on throwing it out ? Seems I don't understand the dpkg / apt-get relationship yet; since dpkg knows about it: $ dpkg --get-selections | grep sun sun-j2sdk1.5 install Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
