Making a local repository -part1

[ShirishAg75]

sudo apt-get -d install xubuntu-desktop This will put the packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. Apt-move will look there by default.
This I've been doing from the last 3 days in sessions of 2-3 hrs. so now I have about 200 MB worth of repository. I do see all the packages in /var/cache/apt/archives in .deb format






Step three Run apt move to create the archive structure
Make sure you have enough disk space first.
sudo apt-move get
sudo apt-move move
The first one
apt-move get went fine giving this output

updating from local package files....
All Done, exiting

The second however
apt-move move gave the output
Moving files .....
Skipping files ....
gave the whole list of the files .deb which I've downloaded
& then gave
All done, exiting.

Now my questions are :-

1. When it says updating from local package files what is it
updating?
2. Should I run apt-get update before running the two apt-move
commands?
3. Is it normal for this skipping files or should it have given
some other output?
The wiki is silent as to what output should be given.
4. To have a verbose output should I just include
apt-move -v getor something different.

Looking for directions from all.

[ShirishAg75]

Looking desperately for help guys, somebody plz. respond who has done this :)

[az]

1. When it says updating from local package files what is it
updating?
The local repository it is making in /mirrors. This location is determined by /etc/apt-move.conf

I will add this detail to the wiki page.




2. Should I run apt-get update before running the two apt-move
commands?


It depends. If you just installed the packages you want to include in your repo, the newest versions were just downloaded to /var/cache/apt/archive. If you installed them a while ago and would like your local repo to have recent updates (assuming you have the breezy-updates and the breezy-security repositories active) then yes.


3. Is it normal for this skipping files or should it have given
some other output?
The wiki is silent as to what output should be given.


"It would seem that some ubuntu packages are not inserted into the packages.gz file by apt-move. Is this because of some ubuntu-specific reposiitory structure?" I don't know why it skips some packages, but that is why we need to throw away the packages.gz file and start over with dpkg-scanpackages.

4. To have a verbose output should I just include
apt-move -v getor something different.

I don't know what you mean by this.


I made that wiki page after looking for a tool to make a custom cd repository. I could not find one, so I used apt-move. I am sure there are more elegant ways to get the job done, but this has worked for me.

[GAJ]

Hello folks,
May be this thread will help, I done my local repository as this :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=633062#post633062

HTH,

[GAJ]

Hello again,

BTW, the commands :

$ alien -d *.rpm
$ dpkg -i *.deb
seem to be very more productive than a local repository, as they prepare RPMs (if needed of course) and install deb packages correctly, then let Synaptic knowing and managing it without other hassle...

No more cents.

best regards,