Re: How to retrieve package source from arbitrary repository
Am 11.04.2012 15:59, schrieb Camaleón:
>
> If the repository does not follow Debian mirror rules nor package naming,
> it's almost impossible to decipher the URI from a given ".dsc" file, it
> can be hosted anywhere in the server.
>
> Otherwise, if it uses conventional Debian packaging rules, you can use
> the static information to make a guess:
>
> uri="ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g" pkg="gedit" ver="_3.2.6-1" wget $uri/$pkg/$pkg$ver.dsc
>
Unfortenately, guessing would be hard: I don't know the package's
version number, plus I can't be sure about the repository's directory
structure (trivial or automatic repository).
Still, thanks a lot,
Malte
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