Am Mittwoch, den 06.07.2011, 04:11 -0400 schrieb Hamish Moffatt: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:52:02PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > > One of apt-zip/aptoncd/apt-offline might meet your needs. > > Thanks all for the replies. I checked out apt-zip, apt-offline, aptoncd, > CDD and apt-clone. None of them really suited my needs, as I want to > generate this repository automatically, and want to do a whole class of > target systems which will have a baseline set of packages installed. > > Anyway I've found it's pretty easy to roll my own using python-apt and > configuring apt to use alternate locations for the cache, dpkg status > file etc. I feed in the dpkg status file from my baseline install, a > sources.list and a list of packages I want to be installable, and I can > easily download the files. Then use apt-ftparchive to generate the > metadata and I'm done.
If you have enough bandwidth and disk space, you could use apt-mirror to store a complete mirror locally (takes around 30 GB for one architecture). -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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