On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:13:31AM -0400, Chad Kiser wrote:
...
> Here is what I'm requesting, an app on debian which will output my
> installed package database and possible sources.list into a file. Then
> a win32 program that will read that file, look at my sources.list and
> present me with a list of upgradeable packages, then allow me to
> select packages to upgrade and download those for me.
If you install cygwin under windows, then you will get a
somewhat-sensible working environment. That can then be leveraged
further.
> I don't know anything about coding so I can't do something like this
> for myself, and I'm sure there are other people out there in a similar
> situation that something like this would benefit. Would someone be
> willing to tackle such a project?
I took a different approach
- Install cygwin at work
- On my linux box, connect up and perform apt-get update (not install)
- on the linux box use the attached script to prepare the download e.g.:
# cygwin-apt-get upgrade > deb-upgrade.sh
(same syntax as apt-get)
- transport (e.g. via mail) the deb-upgrade.sh script to the cygwin box
and run it there. This will download the necesary .deb's
- transport the .debs back home (USB keyfob, CD, whatever)
- Copy the .debs to /var/cache/apt/archives on the debian box
- (finally!!) apt-get upgrade
- Relax. Coffee. Order Pizza. Take over the world. Get Broadband.
Hope this helps
PS: the script can probably be improved to no end - GPL applies here.
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Karl E. Jørgensen
karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com
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#!/bin/sh
set -e
cat <<"!"
#!/bin/sh
getfile()
{
url=$1
localname=$2
md5sum=$3
len=$4
if [ ! -f $localname ]
then
echo Fetching $url into $localname
if wget --continue --non-verbose --tries=3 --output-document ${localname}.new $url ; then
mv ${localname}.new ${localname}
echo Got ${localname} - $len bytes
fi
else
echo Skipping $localname - already fetched
fi
}
!
apt-get --print-uris --download-only --yes "$@" |
grep \^\'http | tr -d \' |
sort -n -k3 -r |
while read url localname len md5sum
do
echo getfile $url $localname $md5sum $len
done
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