on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:04:29AM -0600, MC_Vai (estoy@ver.megared.net.mx) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to retrieve all packages from a given
> repository (for a network installation).
>
> I've tried with:
> % apt-get -d install '(.*)'
You can't install everything.
On a technical viewpoint: Some packages conflict with others.
On an administrative viewpoint: less is more. You're better off with a
minimal installation to which you add necessary packages, than with a
global config, from a security, configuration, and maintenance
viewpoint. You can add packages on an as-needed basis with
$ apt-get install foo
...at any later date.
> but it doesn't work because of the broken packages.
> So my questions are:
>
> Is there any way to make apt-get ignore the broken
> packages and continue retrieving all the other
> pkgs in the repository?
I think this may be what you're looking for.
$ apt-get --fix-missing -a
> Is there a better way to get all the packages from
> a repository?
See docs on mirroring Debian archives.
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