Hi,
I have created a local mirror with apt-move, I have placed a
line like this in sources.list:
deb file:/mirrors/debian/ local main contrib non-free non-us
As you can see, with my sparkling imagination I gave the local
mirror a release name of "local".
I ran apt-get update and all seems fine except that I cannot
seem to install any packages from the local mirror. Let's say
that I wanted to install getmail, I first see that this
package is available in the local mirror:
$ apt-cache policy getmail
getmail:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.1.3-2
Version Table:
2.1.9-2 0
500 file: local/main Packages
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
500 http://ftp.debian.nl unstable/main Packages
2.1.3-2 0
900 http://ftp.debian.nl testing/main Packages
and then:
$ sudo apt-get install getmail/local
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Release 'local' for 'getmail' was not found
But release 'local' is acknowledged as per above..(?)
I have tried to give 'local' a pin priority of '990' in the
preferences file but that in turn is not acknowledged - it
keeps being stuck at '500'.
If I really need to use the official release names such as
stable, testing and unstable how will I distinguish between my
local mirror and remote mirrors - so that I can use the local
mirror selectively to install packages from?
Any good advice appreciated.
Regards,
Morten
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