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Re: How to download source only?



i cannot imagine why this is usefull. care to give a use case?

I had downloaded a GB or more of binaries, and now for some reasons, I want the source code of those binaries. Want to tweak them for max performance on my machine(s)

There are 1400 binary deb and if I manually start downloading them, I will become mad at the end of that exercise (heck what are computers supposed to do then?? )


2009/11/12 Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
surreal wrote:
> Is there any way of downloading source files without the binaries ??

not with live-helper, and you'll never will, as it's not possible to do
it without first bootstrapping.

however, if you insist.. do it by hand. either bootstrap your target
system or change your hosts systems /etc/apt/sources.list to point to
the target distribution, expand the list of packages to their actual
installed packages (depends and recommends, if wished), don't forget to
add the packages that lh_chroot_linux-image is adding and apply the same
mechanism to the final list of binary packages that lh_source_debian is
doing.

> I dont want to create a live cd but only get the source files of the
> packages found in live helper lists.

i cannot imagine why this is usefull. care to give a use case?

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