Using CDs to seed mirror?
I've got an official CD-ROM set of Debian 2.2r2 i386. I'd like to set up an in-house HTTP mirror to use for installations and upgrades, particularly for machines without CD-ROM drives. I tried copying the contents of the 3 CDs into a directory which I made available via HTTP, but when I hit this mirror from a machine running version 2.1 with "apt-get upgrade ; apt-get -s dist-upgrade" it downloads package files okay but only wants to upgrade xntp3. Is there a way I can properly set up this HTTP mirror from the CDs? My net connection is too slow to mirror the normal way. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using CDs to seed mirror?
On 19 Feb 2001, at 17:37, Steve McIntyre wrote: > What you're seeing will be caused by the Packages files overwriting > each other. Cat together the Packages files from each CD instead of > just copying... Thanks, it worked great. Of course I had to gzip the resultant combined Packages files to replace the ones off the CD, since apt-get looks for the .gz extensions when fetching from a http: URL configured in /etc/apt/sources.list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
