I am trying to install potato on my home computer. Since my graphical hardware (Matrox millenium G450) is not supported in XFree3 I have to install/upgrade to Xfree4. Unfortunately I have no internet acess yet, so I have made a copy of the reprository at http://people.debian.org/~branden/woody/i386/ on my local HD in the directory /debian/woody/i386/
Next I have added the line "deb file:/debian/ woody/$(ARCH)/" to my /etc/apt/sources.list file. And the Packages file (from ~branden) has been put in the /debian/woody/i386/ directory. When I start dselect the update command should update the database of avaialable packages to include my local repository. Then the select command should come up with a section with updated and obsolote packages, right ? Since the Filename line for each package in the Package file reads "Filename: woody/i386/<package-name> it should not be necessary to edit this file, right ? I am asking before actually trying it out because I fear I otherwise will mess up the database. But maybe I'm to scary ? -- Harald Iwe
