On Wed, January 26, 2011 8:54 am, Benjamin Scott wrote: > I have an idea I've been turning over in my head which may be > applicable here, too: Set up another installation in a directory branch. > In your case, maybe under "/usr/ubuntu-i386/" or something > like that.
That could be "fun". *ponders inserting a chroot or a pivot_root into the installation process* > I've been fiddling with using arguments to apt-get/dpkg to change > the root directory for that invocation, e.g.: > > sudo apt-get -o 'RootDir=/usr/unstable' update Interesting. Hadn't known about/considered this route. > That problem I have is that I haven't found the magic needed to > initialize an apt installation. It rightly complains that its data files > are missing, but I don't know any way to create them. With RPM, it's "rpm > --initdb". Anyone know how to do it in APT-land? Googling around didn't come up with anything that simple -- but I did find something: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/package-database-rebuild.html Looks like Nicholas Petreley wrote a column (dead link referenced in page) describing a similar issue, and someone wrote up a script in response. It's from 2003 -- a mere eight years ago might cause there to be some issues, but at the least, it seems to have some interesting ideas for mining. -Ken _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
