i'm glad this came up. i'm about to renter this zone myself, starting over from 2.1 slink cd's and then apt-get upgrading to potato again...
Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > Questions: > > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > > perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? > > > I use apt-move to build a local partial mirror. You can just point > your sources.list there and there ya go... ;-) any chance you could be a bit more verbose/specific? (i've spent a bit-o-time looking at the apt-move source and it's a bit fuzzy-gray to me just yet.) what configs/options would work to tell apt-get to upgrade a fresh slink from a cd install, to use the *.deb files that have already been downloaded into /var/cache/apt ...? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Their is five errers in this sentance.