After trawling though the man pages for apt, apt-get, apt.conf and synaptic, I can't see how to set the system up to use a local repository. Searched the alug archives for an answer to no avail.. The packages need to be on a hard drive so that I can mess around on a box that doesn't have internet access... So two questions for the apt-experts..
What do I need to add to /etc/apt/apt.conf or *.lists to get Synaptic to use a local directory ?
Do I need to auto-generate a package list to resolve dependency problems, or does apt do this without prompting ?
Regards, Paul.
Don't know if this is any help but this is what I use for a local HTTP repository for a network of workstations, where $DOCROOT is the web server DocumentRoot.
All package and source files go in $DOCROOT/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386 along with the following Makefile (sorry for long lines):
---------- all: Packages.gz Sources.gz
DIST = woody SECTION = main
Packages.gz: cd ../.. ;\ dpkg-scanpackages $(SECTION)/binary-i386 overrides.txt dists/$(DIST)/ | gzip -9c > $(SECTION)/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Sources.gz: cd ../.. ;\ dpkg-scansources $(SECTION)/binary-i386 overrides.txt dists/$(DIST)/ | gzip -9c > $(SECTION)/source/Sources.gz
.PHONY: clean Packages.gz Sources.gz
clean: -rm -f Packages.gz ../source/Sources.gz ----------
the clients have the following in /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://server/debain woody main deb-src http://server/debian woody main
Whether it is possible to do the equivalent of a file:// source I don't know, but hopefully the above may nudge you a little closer.
Mal
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:38:35PM +0000, Paul wrote:
After trawling though the man pages for apt, apt-get, apt.conf and synaptic, I can't see how to set the system up to use a local repository. Searched the alug archives for an answer to no avail.. The packages need to be on a hard drive so that I can mess around on a box that doesn't have internet access... So two questions for the apt-experts..
What do I need to add to /etc/apt/apt.conf or *.lists to get Synaptic to use a local directory ?
Do I need to auto-generate a package list to resolve dependency problems, or does apt do this without prompting ?
Regards, Paul.
Malcolm Locke malc@hoodee.co.uk wrote:
Whether it is possible to do the equivalent of a file:// source I don't know, but hopefully the above may nudge you a little closer.
I was intending to pull my scripts out of the server here, but you've beaten me to it with a much better solution. Hope you don't mind me copying it. It is possible to do file:// sources.
Thanks Mal
After quite a bit of hunting, I eventually found http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/web-apt-rep.html which provided me with :
genbasedir --progress --flat --bz2only /home/joe/public_html/i386
Note, this was for Synaptic on an RPM based distro rather than Debian. None the less, your makefile will come in very handy for the next project.
Regards, Paul.
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 9:51 am, Malcolm Locke wrote:
Don't know if this is any help but this is what I use for a local HTTP repository for a network of workstations, where $DOCROOT is the web server DocumentRoot.
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