Daniel Schepler wrote: > It seems the current debian-installer build process completely ignores > entries with file: in /etc/apt/sources.list. It would be nice if it > were possible to build the package using a local mirror without having > to set up a local web server just for this, or search through it > manually for udebs to put in localudebs.
You can do that by editing sources.list.local (its name may have just changed to sources.list.udeb.local or something like that in CVS), and add your own file:// uris. The reason the automatic sources.list generation ignores file:// is because it tries to find standard debian mirrors which are likely to work and have the debian-installer udebs directory on them. It's a lot harder for the automated constructor to tell if a file:// is likely to be a full mirror, rather than a partial mirror, or a local repository, and if it messes up I get FTBFS reports, so it's best to keep it conservative in what it accepts. But you can easily override the generated sources.list with the .local one. -- see shy jo
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