On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:33:51 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
Well, I finally seem to have worked around this problem. I set up apache and added symlinks to the package directories. I added the corresponding urls (http://myhostname/sarge/1-5) to sources.list and gave a priority of 999 to 'origin myhostname'. But a new problem is that it downloads those packages from my local server and puts them in /var/cache! I then added the original file: urls back into sources.list and did an 'apt-get update'. Now it does what I want it to do. The only problem remaining is that scanning the package lists takes a long time for it has to now scan from three sources instead of just two. Am I missing out a better solution? Thanks, Raj Kiran -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
