synaptic question

[duncan brown]

it'll be updated when i get home tonight =]

thanks for the input.  i wrote it because i couldn't find anything decent on creating a repository, and matthias's script was a nightmare.

-d

----- Original Message -----
From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at welho.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:26:19 +0300
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: synaptic question

> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 02:12, duncan brown wrote:
> > from the sources.list man page (man sources.list)
> > 
> >        file   The file scheme allows an arbitrary directory in the
> > file system
> >               to  be  considered an archive. This is useful for NFS
> > mounts and
> >               local mirrors or archives.
> > 
> > first, create your own apt repository under let's say
> > /var/apt_repository by following the directions in my apt walkthrough
> > http://www.linuxadvocate.net/apt (pardon my site, it's utter crud)
> 
> Couple of things need to be straightened out in the instructions :)
> 1) *Always* run genbasedir with --bloat option for any RHL/FC based
> distro, otherwise you'll start seeing odd breakage sooner or later
> 2) genbasedir already runs genpkglist, you should never directly invoke
> genpkglist in fact.
> 
> > 
> > so, create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ called local.list with
> > an entry like i mention in the walkthrough, only substitute 'rpm' with
> > 'file', and have it point at your /var/apt_repository, or whever you
> > have it.
> 
> Another option, which even avoids having to run genbasedir completely is
> using the newish rpm-dir repository type. See 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/60650/ for example how to use that.
> 
> 	- Panu -
> 
> 
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