DVD repositories

[Michele Cella]

Hi Thomas ;-)

IIRC you have to manually create the two index files (Packages.gz and
Sources.gz) for your repository.

Take a look here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html#id2781524


Ciao
Michele

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:41:49 +0000, Thomas Beckett
<thomas.beckett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anybody tell me how I would go about creating a repository
> containing just seleced packages. The idea is that I want to write the
> packages I download with apt from /var/cache/apt to DVD. This will
> help when i frequently kill my compter whilst tinkering around and
> also to use on my other machine that is not on a network. I could
> install a copy of warty or hoary then copy them back over to
> /var/cache/apt but this will waste time. Can I set it so that I just
> need to refrence the DVD in my conf file and it will "download" from
> the DVD.
> If I want it updating further I can simply rsync the packages
> individually... ooo any way to make rsync write to DVD RW so it will
> be automated. I would then need to automatically rebuild the index or
> whatever process defines a repository.
> 
> Any idas or help would be much apreciated!
> 
> Tom
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