Re: mirror-tutorial 0.2

["Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx taylor intel com>]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 13:04, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:49, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > The updated version, hopefully ready for editorial, is available at
> > Bugzilla #130125.  Major issues:
> > 
> > 1. I need someone to contribute sections on apt. I don't use it, only
> > up2date with the yum backend. Note that the tutorial is purposely *not*
> > designed to be a tutorial for how to use yum and apt. The only reason
> > they are mentioned is in the context of providing a backend for up2date
> > on both the server and the client side. As it stands, the tutorial
> > fulfills its mission, but it does not cover the apt part, only yum.
> 
> Oops, I just looked at your doc to see what you were talking about.  Apt
> does exactly the same thing as yum.  You could just copy/paste the
> information about yum into the apt section.  It even has the same
> drawback as you mention for yum.

And to create a repository, you need to run:

genbasedir --flat --bloat --bz2only \
 --topdir=/top_level/dir sub_dir1 subdir2 subdir3 ...

Forrest