[ubuntu-za] add repo

[Miles]

-----Original Message-----
From: Hannes Coetzee <scorpking at scorpking.za.org>
Reply-to: Ubuntu South African Local Community
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To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] add repo
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:20:27 +0200
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On 16/02/2012 18:31, Miles wrote:
> <--SNIP-->
> I find it hard to believe that if, on a clean install. one copys the
> whole /var/cache/apt/archives from a working machine or local repo that
> the simple command like sudo apt-get update doesn look whats in your
> archives till it has first gone online to see whats inna sky. there must
> be a way to make update see whats available already on your pc?
>
The reason why that won't work is because apt stores a list of the 
available packages in /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin and 
/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin when you run apt-get update. If you do a 
fresh install the list of available packages in those files will be 
different from the available packages on your old machine. In theory I 
suppose you could copy those two files as well to the new machine and it 
should work but I've never tried it. It might be worth testing.

Hannes


Hi Hannes, Gonna try this as well. I have tried copying
/var/lib/apt/ and /var/cache/apt/ and /var/cache/apt/archives but
without update first going online for the update it doesnt look whats
already in archives. if I can tell update to look whats already in /var/
without wanting to go online I will most likely fall off the chair
because then I can use maverick forever.
Thanks for the help guys
Miles