-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 09:17:34AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm tracking down some problems related to chosen install options. > I expect to be making _multiple_ clean installs. > Besides /etc/apt/sources.list, where is information stored after > having scanned the complete set of DVDs. > > I wish to store it to a safe location for use after doing EACH clean > install. > TIA
Perhaps there are more places, but the package lists are at least in /var/lib/apt/lists one file for each source (or mirror). I haven't packages from CDROM, but I'd assume that they might end up there as well. Moreover there's a list in /var/lib/apt/cdroms.list containing references to the CDROMs themselves (what exactly is in there I can't say, but I'd expect the gory details over there: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_debian_package_management_internals Regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAliOF74ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZtIwCfXIamnCtKVrfcT8J2PNf//eDS X7AAn2LdnsSgdH5ZjzhKRHZhq8pOEEX7 =YpoX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
