[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Non-debian tools for fetching DEB packages?



On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:59:59PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 02:18:26PM +1100, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 06:41:29PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> >> So, it would be nice if there were a script where I could say something like...

> >>    get-debs aptitude

> >> and it would either go get all of the dependent packages or, at the
> >> very least, tell me which additional ones I need to get.

>> I've seen something like this, used for updating remote, 'netless
>> machines with a single round trip of a USB stick.

>> I don't remember what it was, but it's something like apt-floppy...

> I think it was apt-zip, as in use an Iomega zip disk.

That's the one I was thinking of.

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------
Paul "TBBle" Hampson, B.Sc, LPI, MCSE
On-hiatus Asian Studies student, ANU
The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361)
Paul.Hampson@Pobox.Com

Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did,
we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and
listening to repetitive music.
 -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/
-----------------------------------------------------------

Attachment: pgpBNzu0AWGt1.pgp
Description: PGP signature


Reply to: