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 -
