Bug#22836: marked as done (Disk/Zip-Method for apt?)
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From: Thimo Neubauer <neubauer@unix.tsl.uu.se>
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Subject: Disk/Zip-Method for apt?
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Package: apt
Version: 0.0.13
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This is just a suggestion, I don't know if this is possible at all:
My situation is the following: I have a freshly installed hamm-box at home
and want to keep the packages up-to-date. I am using apt and I'm very
happy with it's http-method. Unfortunately, I'm not living in the US,
which means that I have to pay a lot for modem-connections. My suggestion
is now as follows:
A new method for getting packages could be by writing a list with packages
to get on a medium (floppy, ZIP, ...), take this to work, pop the disk
into the drive and start a dumb transfer-program. At home, apt finds the
new packages (and maybe even a new Packages.gz) on the disk an installs
like after a ftp/http-Transfer.
This method could be marked as "deb disk:/zip" in sources.list (which
would of course not be an URL...).
With this method it could be additionally useful to define a maximal size
of packages to get directly with ftp/http. If for example a new X-Version
is released I don't want to get it via modem but packages summing up to
100k can be fetched while surfing or exchanging mail.
I don't know if this is realistic/possible. Maybe the question if apt
should download the files could allow a third answer which would write a
list of files to get and a copy of /etc/apt/sources.list on the medium. At
work a stripped-down version of apt-get (just the download-code) could
fetch the appropriate packages.
If you tell me, where to implement this function most elegant I could try
to write it and send you a diff.
Yours
Thimo Neubauer
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