On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:39:16AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Announcing my new script, > http://jidanni.org/comp/debian/dpkg-repackage recreates lost .debs > from installed packages. > > (Useful only if we are on an non networked island and want to install > packages onto machine B that exist on machine A, but the .debs are > gone.) > > How is this different from dpkg-repack? $ apt-cache show dpkg-repack Package: dpkg-repack Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 60 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 1.19 Depends: perl, dpkg-dev Filename: pool/main/d/dpkg-repack/dpkg-repack_1.19_all.deb Size: 10700 MD5sum: 0c931bcba74c0417d35e76b233472945 Description: puts an unpacked .deb file back together dpkg-repack creates a .deb file out of a debian package that has already been installed. If any changes have been made to the package while it was unpacked (ie, files in /etc were modified), the new package will inherit the changes. . This utility can make it easy to copy packages from one computer to another, or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but no longer available elsewhere, or to store the current state of a package before you upgrade it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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