On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:48:58AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote (wyy sez): > Quoting Horatio B. Bogbindero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:33:06PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote (wyy sez): > >> Quoting Horatio B. Bogbindero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> > >> If you literally just want to use ISO images of the CDs as apt > >> repositories, mount them using loop fs, and then add them as "deb" > >> lines to /etc/apt/sources.list, using "file:///" URLs -- I guess. > > > > this would work for the local computer. but, would not work as an > > apt repository. > > Well, it would if you mounted the images within, e.g., an Apache > document root. > the distro is mounted in a web root. however, it cannot be used as an apt repository. an apt repository will have a special directory structure. what my problems is... is that i would like to make this special directory structure with the fewest amount of effort and without having to copy the debian files to the web root and keep redundant copies.
> It's possible I'm not clear on what you're trying to do, but between > apt-move, apt-proxy, and apt-utils, there's probably a solution there, > somewhere. > yup. there is a way. i was hoping that some debian people here could help me pull this off. of course, the simplest solution would be to mirror the debian apt repositories but my solution would save disk space being the webroot share, apt repository and ISO image all in one. -------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) email : wyy at admu dot edu dot ph web : http://CNG.ateneo.net/wyu/ phone : 63(2)4266001-4186 GPG : http://CNG.ateneo.net/wyu/wyy.pgp War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon
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