On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 22:01, Reg Clemens wrote: > Ive used apt-get in the past, but not recently. > I maintain a local copy of the fedora2 archive, and do a > > genbasedir $TOP os updates > > after each update. > > my /etc/apt/sources.list file has the line > > rpm ftp://orion apt/fedora2/ updates > > in it, which was the only uncommented line in the past. > > So, Im missing something, as now I get the error message: > > [reg@orion apt]$ apt-get update > Fetching list of repositories/mirrors... > /var/state/apt/mirrors.list.new: Permission denied > E: Failed to fetch mirror list file: > > What is this trying to tell me? That you need to be root to run apt. Also since you're using a local repository you can put Apt::State::FirstRun "false"; to /etc/apt/apt.conf to prevent it from asking you to select the preferred repository mirror on the first (successful) run. Oh and you need to use --bloat option with genbasedir for FC/RHEL/RHL repositories, otherwise it's going to be a rather broken repository because some file dependencies can't be matched. - Panu -
