On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 9/20/06, Viv Kendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there a way to specify an extra location for dpkg to
>> look for downloaded deb files?
>>
>> My particular reason for doing this is because I maintain a
>> copy of my TiBook hard drive on an external firewire drive.
>> I don't just clone the whole thing (that would be pretty
>> slow), I use unison for user data, and periodically boot off
>> it to install software updates, and update fink. So at that
>> point, the deb files I need are sitting locally on the
>> internal hard drive, no need to redownload. But how do I
>> get dpkg to look in
>> /Volumes/hardrive/sw/var/cache/apt/archives ??
>>
> Check "man sources.list"
>
> You'd set your repository up using the "file" descriptor.
> You'd probably need to run dpkg-scanpackages as well to make that known to
> APT.
> (I haven't played with this on anything other than a fink tree with
> the Packages.gz files)
Hmm, no, that isn't quite what I need, it assumes the debs
are in a fink tree built from source (10.4/unstable/...).
I want to specify another /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/
location, which is where the downloaded debs get stashed
when you didn't build your own from source.
-- Viv
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Quantum Information tel: 0113 343 3858
Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds
http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv
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