On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:23:19AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote (wyy sez): > Quoting Horatio B. Bogbindero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > the distro is mounted in a web root. however, it cannot be used as an > > apt repository. an apt repository will have a special directory > > structure. > > This is not necessarily the case. Apt repositories don't always use the > same structure -- although a standard layout for storing Debian > distribution branches does exist: If you look at the entries in > http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/ (a page > cataloging unofficial apt repositories for various purposes), you'll see > lots of different directory layouts among them. > apparently yes. kaya lang RedHat person kasi ako so apt-rpm does have a more or less fixed format to follow. di ko lang alam paano sa debian.
> Not following the standard layout (because you're mounting several ISO > images) just means that the client machine trying to reach the apt > repository may need a separate line in /etc/apt/sources.list for each > ISO image, e.g., > > deb http://aptsource.admu.edu.ph/debian/disk1/ ./ > deb http://aptsource.admu.edu.ph/debian/disk2/ ./ > deb http://aptsource.admu.edu.ph/debian/disk3/ ./ > tried this on a debian machines and it does not seem to work. i keep getting a 404 error. a debian user collegue of mine sa ACENT (new guy lurker-mode in PLUG pa siya) is trying out different way of making this work. > > yup. there is a way. > > ;-> > > I hope that helps. > yup. thanks for leading me into some sort of direction. i am just trying different combinations of sources.list invocations here. -------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) email : wyy at admu dot edu dot ph web : http://CNG.ateneo.net/wyu/ phone : 63(2)4266001-4186 GPG : http://CNG.ateneo.net/wyu/wyy.pgp War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon
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