Re: tomorrow's meeting

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

On 24 Sep 2002, Jeff Licquia wrote:

> So, making an apt-able CD involves generating a few files and putting
> them on the CD: a nice description of the CD (no, it doesn't use the CD
> title), the package databases, and the calculated ID file.  I can tell
> you what those files are for Debian, but I don't have any idea what they
> are for RPM.  On Debian, I can also tell you that the files are the same
> format for both; you can copy a Debian CD to your hard disk and give apt
> "file:" URIs in sources.list and it will work.
> 

I figured that it would be something like the steps of making the http apt 
repository (which I have not done either). Is there any possibility for 
the "special files" to be created on the hard drive, and pointing to a 
standard RedHat (or whatever rpm-based) disk? It sure would be nice to be 
able to use the standard disks.

Erich

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