Hi, A couple of weeks ago, I switched over to Debian from RedHat. So far things are fine, but I am facing a problem with apt-get. I have downloaded the first few iso images of sarge and have them lying on my hard-disk.
I have the following lines in my '/etc/apt/sources.list' === deb file:/mnt/sarge/1 sarge main deb file:/mnt/sarge/2 sarge main deb file:/mnt/sarge/3 sarge main deb file:/mnt/sarge/4 sarge main deb file:/mnt/sarge/5 sarge main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free === I have put the following lines in the '/etc/apt/preferences' file to give higher priority to the local packages. (As per the manpage) Package: * Pin: origin "" Pin-Priority: 999 However this does not seem to work. The command 'apt-cache policy' shows no difference with the addition/deletion of the above lines to /etc/apt/preferences, and apt-get insists on downloading the files from the net even for minor changes in the versions. Is there any way to force apt-get to use the local packages instead of downloading them again? Thanks, Rajkiran -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
