-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 December 2002 7:09 pm, Stephen Birch wrote: > Perhaps this isn't documented? > > Could someone give an overview of how one creates the /dists... directory > tree for a set of deb files? >
I think it depends on how many .deb files you have. If you want a mirror of a large chunk of a debian distribution, then use apt-move, or apt-proxy. If you have only a few files (for instance I have the 284 packages that make up qt, kde and kdevelop) then proceed as follows 1) Create an override file. You can probably get one from a debian archive, I build mine from hand - I decided to put all the packages in a single subdirectory. I created mine in /var/www/debian (where my document root for the web server is /var/www) If you want to create one by hand its very simple - each package goes on a single line <package name> optional <subdir> Where "optional" is the actual text and is the priority of the package (obviously if you want something different then change it) So a small part of my override file is ... amor optional kde ark optional kde arts-dev optional kde artsbuilder optional kde arts optional kde cervisia optional kde eyesapplet optional kde fifteenapplet optional kde flashkard optional kde gideon-data optional kde gideon-dev optional kde gideon-doc optional kde gideon optional kde kaboodle optional kde ... (I don't think they have to be in alphabetical order - I just did it that way) 2) Put all the debs into the appropriate subdir (in my case /var/www/debian/kde ) 3) Run dpkg-scanpackages . override | gzip > Packages.gz 4) put the following into your /etc/apt/sources.list line deb http://www.yourdomain.com/debian/ ./ [ensure you have all the right / and . s] 5) apt-get update And then select the packages that you want. (Note the order of your sources.list lines matter if the version numbers from the debs in your archive and from other places are the same) - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE99kiauFHxcV2FFoIRAop3AJ4iUFAxQGtgPaXfW73nc+EXqfTNuwCgi1OM 8kcWOp7+k25Vvx2SOOd9/H0= =pOFe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
