Re: Creating a local apt repository?

[Greg Trounson <gregtr es co nz>]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Greg Trounson wrote:
>
> > Gidday,
> >
> > Not strictly Fedora-centric, but if I can get it working under RH9, I 
> > plan to deploy it to my Fedora machines.
> >
> > Since I'm on a dial-up connection, I have copied the complete set of RH9 
> > rpms into one directory on my machine in an attempt at creating a local 
> > mirror for apt.
> >
> > I have run
> > "genbasedir --flat --bloat --bz2only --partial --progress 
> > /mainarchive/redhat9 localrpms"
> > on this directory, and the appropriate pkglist.localrpms.bz2 etc have 
> > been created in /mainarchive/redhat9/base.
> > I have added
> > "rpm file:/apt/ /mainarchive/redhat9 localrpms"
>
>             ^^^^^
>
> If the directory is /mainarchive/redhat9 then that's what you have to use 
> as the path, eg "rpm file:/mainarchive redhat9 localrpms" is what you 
> should use for that - you can't invent parts of the path and have apt find 
> whatever you intended :)

Thanks, using that syntax got it working!

Apt still has gnumeric, evolution and about 50 other essential programs 
marked as 'broken' and wants to remove them before doing anything.

I was hoping that pointing apt to a local archive, showing that those 
programs *are* in fact okay to have installed, would have fixed it.

Greg