Anyone using aptate here?

[Richard Bos]

Op Monday 04 June 2007 23:49:14 schreef Johannes Kastl:
> I managed it with aptate, and it seems to work. But I found out that
> aptate can create apt repo data, even if the rpm are not lying on the
> local harddisk. That would be nice, would save me 6GB of space.

This is not possible.  The rpms must be available to aptate (in other words on 
disk).  Perhaps you mean this:
- aptate should categorize your packages from CD or DVD?
If this is the case, have the config file point to the packages on disk.  Run 
aptate once and after add the argument scan="no" (if I remember well).  With 
a next aptate will scip the scanning of the disk.  This enables apt (the 
client) to resolve dependencies, but you need to disk jockey when packages 
from the CDs are actually needed.  So you rather do this with a DVD.

> But I am still stuck, and would need a small hint, or somebody knowing
> how to do this. Anyone?

Hopefully the above explanation is what you're looking for.


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Richard Bos
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