Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
The easiest way would be to use the Packages.gz from the mirror and the directory structure as used on the mirror, when you update using that Packages.gz, it will seem as if there are much more packages, that you don't all have, however if you don't need them that's not a problem. Ron Rademaker

RE: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The easiest way would be to use the Packages.gz from the mirror and the directory structure as used on the mirror, when you update using that Packages.gz, it will seem as if there are much more packages, that you don't all have, however if you

RE: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you should check the manpage of deb-control. Ron Rademaker PS. You could also keep all the .deb's and install them, if needed, using dpkg. On Wed, 24 May 2000, Moore, Paul wrote: From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The easiest way would be to use the Packages.gz from

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Joseph A. Martin The LaterDude
Actually I use dpkg-scanpackage with great success. apt-move can also move packages from /var/cache/apt into a directory structure. Check the man page for dpkg-scanpackage, if you need more help ask me and I will provide examples. Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess you should check

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Jim Russell
No, that wouln't work. I have debs from a lot of places (unofficial packages, updated versions backported to slink, etc, etc) and I want to combine them onto one CD. So I have to build my own Packages.gz I do that all the time. On my system, I have a directory /debian/local, where I dump

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread jpb
Joseph A. Martin (The LaterDude) wrote: Actually I use dpkg-scanpackage with great success. apt-move can also move packages from /var/cache/apt into a directory structure. Check the man page for dpkg-scanpackage, if you need more help ask me and I will provide examples. Ron Rademaker

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph A. Martin (The LaterDude)) writes: Actually I use dpkg-scanpackage with great success. apt-move can also move packages from /var/cache/apt into a directory structure. Check the man page for dpkg-scanpackage, if you need more help ask me and I will provide examples.

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Use apt-move Moore, Paul wrote: Another question on apt... I've downloaded a lot of .deb files from various places on the Internet, and I'd like to put them on a CD or something for safekeeping. It strikes me that the best way of doing this would be to put them in some sort of format which