Re: package lists for older machines
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:21:58PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> This would not be too difficult to implement. Probably the easiest way
> would be to for you to just set up a partial mirror which contains only the
> packages that you feel fit this category, and make this mirror available to
> others.
That adds quite a lot of unnecessary overhead. How about a filter inserted
into apt-get update which selects (either by inclusion or exclusion) a subset
of the packages (and everything that depends on those packages, I guess) and
rewrites the Packages file(s) accordingly? Such filters could be written
(possibly using grep-dctrl) based on whatever criteria those with special
needs have. Sure, you still have to download the whole Packages file first,
but it's still orders of magnitude easier than managing an entire partial
mirror.
Ben
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