updating to hardy

[Derek Broughton]

Ignazio Palmisano wrote:

> Willy Hamra wrote:
> 
> In a previous thread named: "how to authenticate my local repository"
> the subject was discussed to some depth; I have never tried to restore
> the cache from another machine, but there is one suggestion that seems
> meaningful: copy them into the /partial folder in the cache folder, the
> first attempt to download should find a complete copy there and then
> index the deb properly where needed. Untested, but seems meaningful.

Well, I said that, but it was just a guess knowing something of how apt
works.  I don't like it, and I wasn't recommending it. :-)

apt-utils contains the script apt-ftparchive which is _exactly_ intended for
making a proper repository out of this sort of directory.
-- 
derek