Re: Nonstandard .deb package management/apt problem: create archive with updateable packages for system not connected to internet

[Florian Ernst <florian_ernst@gmx.net>]

Hello,

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 04:12:40PM +0100, Fiedler Roman wrote:
> [...]
> A system isolated from internet should receive standard distribution
> package updates. Since the system cannot fetch the packages from
> public repositories or internal mirrors, some way to create an archive
> with all necessary .deb packages would be nice. The archive is then
> transferred to the machine via e.g. usb.
> [...]
> Are there tools or a howto available on how to extract the package
> information from source, use it for fetching ....?

$ apt-cache search apt fetch usb
apt-zip - Update a non-networked computer using apt and removable media

HTH,
Flo