Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, March 31, Simon Hepburn did write: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > On a related note, how come /var/lib/dpkg/available keeps getting hosed? > > It's happened to me twice now. The first time, I figured I was SOL and > > re-installed from scratch (fortunately I didn't lose much). It h

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
Richard Cobbe wrote: > On a related note, how come /var/lib/dpkg/available keeps getting hosed? > It's happened to me twice now. The first time, I figured I was SOL and > re-installed from scratch (fortunately I didn't lose much). It happened > again about an hour ago, but I recovered by blowing

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-30 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, March 30, Simon Hepburn did write: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > No, the three slashes are in fact correct. > > Hrmm.. just to add to the confusion. I just checked my sources.list > and saw I was using single slash. I did man sources.list to see if I > was going out of my mind. I

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-30 Thread Simon Hepburn
Richard Cobbe wrote: > No, the three slashes are in fact correct. Hrmm.. just to add to the confusion. I just checked my sources.list and saw I was using single slash. I did man sources.list to see if I was going out of my mind. I'm not. > Turns out you have to write the Release files by hand

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-30 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, March 30, Simon Hepburn did write: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > I've added the local mirror to sources.list, but neither apt-get nor > > dselect appears to see these files. What step have I missed? > > It's a simple typo. Change deb file:///home... to deb file://home... No, th

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-30 Thread Simon Hepburn
Richard Cobbe wrote: > I've added the local mirror to sources.list, but neither apt-get nor > dselect appears to see these files. What step have I missed? It's a simple typo. Change deb file:///home... to deb file://home... BTW when I reply to your message only part of it shows up in my mailer.

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-29 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, March 29, Richard Cobbe did write: > Greetings, all. > > I know this is a FAQ, but I can't find the answer anywhere. > > So, I'm in the process of upgrading from stable to testing (again---the > first time, somebody crapped on /var/lib/dpkg/available, and I couldn't > repair it.

Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-29 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I know this is a FAQ, but I can't find the answer anywhere. So, I'm in the process of upgrading from stable to testing (again---the first time, somebody crapped on /var/lib/dpkg/available, and I couldn't repair it. There was a large chunk missing out of the middle, so far as I co