Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:

> But didn't someone mention this was a sysvinit bug which was getting
> fixed?

I have no idea. In any case, as Ethan Benson already pointed out
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0107/msg00639.html), the current
method is wasteful because it downloads all dependencies. So I suggest
this as a workaround till we can get apt-get to ignore dependencies
*completely*, slightly modified from Ethan's suggestion:

##
## Download a package like apt-get would do; only ignore dependencies.
## This is a hack. Should apt-get ever get an option to do that, it
## should be used instead.
##
fake_get () {
    # HACK: we assume the first mirror is correct...
    local MIRROR="$(awk '/^deb / {print $2; exit}' sources.list)"
    for i in "$@" ; do
	# HACK: we assume the first package is correct...
	local PACKAGE="$(apt-cache show $i | awk '/^Filename:/ {print $2; exit}')"
	debug "downloading " $MIRROR/$PACKAGE
	(cd $archive/cache/archives && wget -q "$MIRROR/$PACKAGE")
    done
}

It would be nice if somebody could try this for another architecture...

        Falk