Hello, Am Dienstag, den 15. Mai 2001 12:28:12 schrieb Joerg Johannes: > > I use apt-get as described in the offline.html guide meaning: I build a > wget script from the output of apt-get -qq --print-uris and so on. Have you looked at the apt-zip-package? > The problem is, there are two other systems involved in this > process: one sun solaris machine, which I use to run wget on it, and > a WinNT4 machine to get the downloaded files via ftp to a zip disk > (I know this is ridiculous, but it's the only possibility for me, > because the sun one has no zip, the NT one has no wget...) Well, > the problem is, that some packages are named > packagexxx-1%3a-yyy.deb. Now, either solaris or NT has a problem > with the "%"-sign. Solaris has no problem. > I have to manually edit the wget-script so that I replace every % by > xxxxx, downlöoad the whole stuff, and then rename the single > packages from xxxxx back to %. This is a rather annoying procedure, > for dist-upgrades from unstable to unstable tend to change lots of > packages. Have you thought of tar-ing the files on Solaris and save the tar-file on zip, so the inferior OS wouldn't see the files? MfG bmg -- "Des is völlig wurscht, was heut beschlos- | M G Berberich sen wird: I bin sowieso dagegn!" | berberic@fmi.uni-passau.de (SPD-Stadtrat Kurt Schindler; Regensburg) | www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~berberic
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