Re: how to download packages
Nick Hastings, 2002-Aug-08 17:32 +1000:
> * Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> [020808 17:10]:
> > On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 14:13, Jeff wrote:
> > > How can I download to cache all the installed packages that aren't
> > > already there? apt-get with the -d option won't do it if the package
> > > is installed and up-to-date. Is there a way to down load the debs
> > > based on my package selections?
> >
> > Why do you want to do this? Many packages conflict with one
> > another, like exim and postfix: you can't have both installed
> > at the same time.
>
> If understand the original post correctly he does not want to down load
> _all_ the packages, just all the _installed_packages_ .
>
> Nick.
Nick is correct. There have been some interesting threads resently
about apt-proxy and building a custom installation CD using specified
packages. I want to experiment a bit.
thanks,
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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