Re: using apt and aptitude for cross-building

["Geoff O'Callaghan" <geoffocal@optushome.com.au>]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:40 +0000, Wookey wrote:
> +++ Geoff O'Callaghan [06-01-03 15:31 +1100]:
> > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 03:14 +0000, Wookey wrote:
> > > +++ Nikita V. Youshchenko [05-12-29 11:32 +0300]:
> 
> > > Also does no-one else know how to make apt-get just download a binary
> > > package? (or aptitude use an apt conf file) Is it not possible without
> > > writing some code?
> > 
> > You mean like apt-get -d  ?
> 
> as I explained in the original mail, -d does not stop dependency checking,
> so if you just want to download one package, irrespective of dependencies
> (in this case because I want a particualar arm package for cross-compiling)
> then it doesn't help. (aptitude download does do what I want, but there
> seems to be no way to point it at an apt.conf file specifying all the
> non-standard directories I want it to use).

ah ok, sorry, didn't read the initial part :-(   Anyway, yes I suffer
similiar issues and end up wget-ing packages from packages.debian.org

not ideal.

-goc-