On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:27:40PM -0400, David Z. Maze (dmaze@MIT.EDU) wrote: > Karsten M Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > KMS> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki (piotr@pingu.ii.uj.edu.pl) wrote: > PK> I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update > PK> && apt-get -d install sth) > KMS> > KMS> Using two different package management systems on a single system > KMS> is a ***BAD*** idea. You are violating the fundamental advantage > KMS> of either system: single-point, centralized coordination of > KMS> packages and dependencies on the system. > > It sounds like what he's actually trying to do is to install APT on a > machine with good connectivity, and using APT in download-only mode to > download packages to local disk. He then copies the files to some > other medium, uses SneakerNet to bring them over to his machine > without connectivity, and installs them locally. > > This is all well and good and reasonable, but I don't know how to > answer his question. :-) man apt-zip? I haven't used it, but my understanding is that this is what it's for. You make your requests on the Debian box, then sneakernet storage from some other box, though I don't know what it wants on it. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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