Re: Is there a "Pseudo Mirror Kit"?
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Olivier Delemar wrote:
> Le mar 27 fév 2001 à 01:48:25 +0100, J.A. Bezemer écrivait :
> > > I'm happy now, I have my CD. But I would be much more happy if
> > > there were a method or a tool to create my local mirror from just a
> > > raw list of desired packages. Any hints?
> >
> > Hmm.. Try something like this: get the Packages file, grep -e ^Package: -e
> > ^Filename: Packages, then for each package in the list
> > echo http://server/debian/`grep -A1 "^Package: $packagename" | grep ^Filename:
> > | cut -d ' ' -f 2-` >> urls.txt, then wget -x -i urls.txt
>
> So good! I understand I have to make my own script, based on
> what you suggest. And if I use /var/lib/dpkg/available instead of
> Packages as the packages list file, I'll have the latest version of
> each package (assuming I've done apt-get update before).
Note that apt-get update does _not_ update /var/lib/dpkg/available. Either run
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update for that, or do
apt-cache dumpavail > /tmp/Packages and use that instead.
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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