Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[David Bandel]

On 7/17/07, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
[snip]

> >> just want to point dpkg to the on-network deb package and have it get
> >> installed.  Is that not possible?  Its dead easy with RPM based distros.
> >
> >       You don't need access to the internet at large to use apt-get. Just edit
> > your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to a mounted cd-rom or to a
> > directory containing .deb files as your source. The source can be on your
> > local machine or any other suitable system on the private network.
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/
>
> This just adds another layer of complexity.  Now i'd need to start
> automating the addition of the local source in sources.list, plus I'd
> still need to get the packages onto the box somehow.
>
> --
>

Lonnie, not sure what you're smoking, but let me recap this thread:
1.  You have some systems on a private network that can't access the Internet.
2.  You want to install a package from
http://mirrors.kernel.org/<blah> (last time I looked that was on the
Internet)
3.  You lament that dpkg/dselect/apt-whatever can't do this, but RPM can.
4.  You don't want to look at the documentation that would tell you
_exactly_ how you could do whatever it is you want to do (except of
course access the inaccessible).

So why don't you just use RPM?  You can use RPM on a Debian-based
system (and Ubuntu is Debian-based).  And if you must use the
particular debian .deb file, you can use alien to convert it.

But I still would like to know how RPM can access from a private
network miles away that doesn't have Internet access, an RPM on the
Internet.  And for that matter, how do you access that network if you
have Internet access and they don't?

Or are you just fishing for ways to pooh-pooh something you haven't
bothered to learn?

David A. Bandel
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