On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:12:37PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt. It downloaded a whole > lot of package files to do this (but dselect, I think, has now deleted > them). > > Now I have a laptop which needs to be upgraded to Slink. It would > appear that I'm going to have to download all these files again! > > What would be nice is to have the option for apt to build up a partial > mirror of the Slink distribution (or any version for that matter), > putting each downloaded file in the correct location in a directory > tree. Of course it would only be a partial mirror because it would > only download those packages which were to be installed. > > The advantage of this is that I could then use this structure to > install from when upgrading my laptop. This solution would be better > than the standard mirror solution because this way, only the files > needed would be downloaded, saving on disk space and internet > bandwidth. > > My guess is that apt doesn't currently have this feature. Are there > any plans to add it? > > My second best option is to use nfs to symlink the laptop's > /var/cache/apt/archives to the desktop's. This might work --- the > only problem here is that dselect-apt decides to delete all the files > in the cache! How can I turn this off??? >
I manually edit the /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install script so that it moves the files to my /pub/debian directory instead of deleting them. After I run install, I fire up the laptop and update it from there. The only problem is, the install script gets overwritten after each apt upgrade... :/ Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680
