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Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

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On 02/13/2017 05:40 PM, songbird wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 02/12/2017 09:26 AM, songbird wrote:
>>> Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>> songbird wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>>   years ago i copied from dvds to a subdirectory
>>>>> on an external USB drive.  it worked ok, but i did
>>>>> have to tell in the apt sources list that i was
>>>>> using a file and not a dvd.
>>>>>
>>>>>   i am pretty sure i used a "cp -r" to do it too...
>>>>>
>>>>>   fwiw,  :)
>>>>
>>>> I have that on my TO-DO list.
>>>> There's an additional step - creating packages.gz so apt related tools look at
>>>> it as a large DVD.
>>>
>>>   the package list is in there, should be no need
>>> to regenerate it.
>>>
>>>   if your apt sources list points to the right
>>> directory (use file not cd or dvd in the list)
>>> it should find it and use it.
>>
>> We have different goals/assumptions.
>> You are creating a directory for each CD/DVD.
>> I have a situation in mind that mounting more than one directory would be a
>> problem. Thus my solution for Jessie would take 13 DVDs and create one humongous
>> pseudo-DVD.
>> P.S. I've never been described as "normal", much less "typical" ;/
>
>   but you do understand that i only had them copied
> to one device, one mount point, one directory which
> contained them all, but apt doesn't care, it scans
> them all the one time when you update and then they
> are available just like any other repository.
>
>   really, i think you are doing more work than is
> needed here for no real gain in anything that i
> can determine.
>
>   mounting the device as i did caused absolutely
> no problems that i recall.
>
>   each disk was an entry in the apt sources list,
> but if i didn't need that device (it was an
> external USB device so not always turned on for
> use) i just commented out those lines in the apt
> sources list.
>

Light begins to dawn. I just carefully read manpage for sources.list .
Seems that I "knew" things that just weren't so ;/
I have the morning free and will do some experimenting.
Thank you for your patience.

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Having scanned set of installation DVDs... Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-29 16:20 +0100
  Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-01-29 17:30 +0100
    Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-29 20:20 +0100
      [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-11 23:30 +0100
        Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-02-12 02:50 +0100
          Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-12 13:50 +0100
        Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-02-12 06:10 +0100
          Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-12 14:00 +0100
            Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-02-12 16:30 +0100
              Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-12 20:40 +0100
                Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-02-14 02:00 +0100
                Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-14 13:10 +0100
                Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs... songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-02-14 22:10 +0100

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