On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
> Googling around didn't come up with anything that simple -- but I did find
> something: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/package-database-rebuild.html
Ahh.... that was the missing puzzle piece. Thanks!
Below is a series of commands that appear to get things started. It
promptly wants to install 88 MB of packages, because it of course
thinks there are no packages installed. I figure I can hack the
"status" file to lie to it about things that will come from the host
system (like apt and the kernel).
You'll need to change "CHANGEME" to your preferred local mirror.
There's nothing in the below about architecture, but I think if you add
APT::Architecture "i386";
to the apt.conf then you'll get what you want.
-------------------- begin commands --------------------
mkdir -p /usr/unstable/etc/apt
echo 'RootDir "/usr/unstable";' >> /usr/unstable/etc/apt/apt.conf
echo 'deb http://CHANGEME/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib' >>
/usr/unstable/etc/apt/sources.list
mkdir -p /usr/unstable/var/lib/dpkg
mkdir -p /usr/unstable/var/lib/apt/lists/partial
mkdir -p /usr/unstable/var/cache/apt/archives/partial
touch /usr/unstable/var/lib/dpkg/status
mkdir -p /usr/unstable/usr/lib
ln -s ../../../lib/apt /usr/unstable/usr/lib/apt
apt-get -c /usr/unstable/etc/apt/apt.conf update
-------------------- end commands --------------------
-- Ben
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