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Re: Downloading packages with AptPkg (libapt-pkg-perl)



On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:18 +0200, Mark de Vries wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use libapt-pkg-perl to [log story short] and then download
> the packages but I can't find a way to get the actual URI to download
> the .deb files.

Take a look at the source of libcache-apt-perl - which provides an
Object-Oriented interface to the apt bindings and the source of
apt-cross which parses the URL out of the apt data.

That code is based on NorthernCross, developed for embedded usage.

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