Re: --root flag to apt-get (to install packages elsewhere) - possible?
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:56:18PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> >Þann 2006-10-01, 12:39:21 (+0200) skrifaði Tomasz Chmielewski:
> >>I have another Debian system mounted in /mnt/system2.
> >>
> >>Now, I'd like to install some new packages there, or upgrade the whole
> >>/mnt/system2 system.
> >>
> >>How can I do it with apt-get?
> >>
> >>
> >>dpkg has "--root" option, but unfortunately it's missing from apt-get.
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >
> >One idea is to run chroot (man chroot). Dont know if it will work
> >though, never tried it :-)
>
> Should run, provided you correct some network settings
> (/etc/resolv.conf, mount /proc perhaps).
>
> The problem is, my "host" computer is x86 arch, and /mnt/system2 is mips
> arch, so chroot won't work in that case.
Have you read "man apt.conf" about "HOW APT CALLS DPKG". You can pass
options to dpkg. So it may work without chroot.
(Besides, you may think about using dpkg-ftp method with dselect too.)
Nothing here were tested.
Osamu
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