This is achieved by creatively manipulating the APT configuration file. The -essential premis to tell APT to look on a disc for it's archive files. Note +essential premise to tell APT to look on a disc for it's archive files. Note that the disc should be formated with a filesystem that can handle long file names such as ext2, fat32 or vfat. @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ configuration file in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf.
On the target machine the first thing to do is mount the disc and copy /var/lib/dpkg/status to it. You will also need to create the directories -outlined in the Overview, archives/partial/ and lists/partial/ +outlined in the Overview, archives/partial/ and lists/partial/. Then take the disc to the remote machine and configure the sources.list. On the remote machine execute the following: @@ -141,9 +141,9 @@ On the remote machine execute the following: [ APT fetches all the packages needed to upgrade the target machine ] -The dist-upgrade command can be replaced with any-other standard APT commands, +The dist-upgrade command can be replaced with any other standard APT commands, particularly dselect-upgrade. You can even use an APT front end such as -dselect However this presents a problem in communicating your +dselect. However this presents a problem in communicating your selections back to the local computer.