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
