how to package downloaded files for non-internet machine

[lchunleo]

hi
i wish to download files from the ubuntu and transfer the downloaded packages to a non internet machine

fast forward, i had already completed the aptly update and perform snapshot "ubuntu-test" prior perform the publish command.

In additional, i also create a directory called "mydist" to hold the packages. After which, i perform:

--> aptly publish snapshot -skip-signing ubuntu-test ./mydist
aptly publish snapshot -skip-signing
However, the directory "mydist" is empty. Please advise me. thank you

Appreciate an hello-world working example to do this.

I also noted that there is no "public" folder created if i perform aptly publish snapshot -distribution ubuntu -architectures="amd64" localrepo

[Simon Hollenbach]

After running aptly publish [...], the public directory should be at ~/.aptly/public if you have not reconfigured aptly's root directory rootDir.

I think you assumed the folders would be created relative to your working directory - They are not, they are always created in a well known place.

[Simon Hollenbach]

To transfer the files, you can simple copy the public directory (or a subdirectory) to where you want them.

Note that your package files, all the files in the publications' /pool/ directory, are hardlinks, meaning they refer to the same files that reside in ~/.aptly/pool - You should not publish across filesystem boundaries, as hardlinks have to be created in the same filesystem as the file they refer to. You can of course copy them to another mount point or send them to a remote location, in which case the contents will be duplicated.