Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 28 dec 12, 10:50:27, Richard Owlett wrote:
I routinely work without a viable network connection of any kind. My
response was to purchase a eight DVD set of "squeeze". Using the DVD
directory structure as an example I have copied the contents of
/pool to a 64GB flash drive. I have also copied the directory
structure of /dists to the flash drive.
I've lost links to:
a. creating the packages and packages.gz files.
b. how to point apt/synaptic/... to this repository.
This is the relevant part of the script I'm using:
# This part generates the minimum necessary files
# for an apt repository.
# Assumptions:
# - this script is run in the directory with packages
# - apt-ftparchive is installed (package apt-utils)
# - you have a GPG key (the default key is used)
# apt seems to require both, even if only one is used
apt-ftparchive packages ./ > Packages
apt-ftparchive packages ./ | gzip > Packages.gz
apt-ftparchive release ./ > Release
gpg --armor --detach-sign --sign --output Release.gpg Release
# a sources.list line should look like this
# deb file:/directory/with/debs ./
Hope this helps,
Andrei
Between that and Mr. Aoki 's post, I should be moving in the
right direction.
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