Re: How to download source only?

[David Cottrill NCH Software <david.cottrill@nchsoftware.com>]

Hi,
This sort of thing should work for you. I assume you have several GB of 
bandwidth.
On the live (or standard) system :

dpkg -l > packages.txt
cat packages.txt> some stream filter eg: sed   > packages_clean.txt
cat packages_clean.txt > apt-get source

David

surreal wrote:
> 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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