Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

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

Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:31:20AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > 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
> > }
> 
> the only problem you may run into with this is apt-get adds the
> archetecture to the filename, the filename on the mirror do not have
> that.  i don't know whether the glop of shell scripts care about that
> or not..

Hm, it works for files from the pool; currently, at least for Alpha
all needed packages seem to be in the pool.

        Falk