download all of sid except for what's already on one's CDs
Gentlemen, I'm well on my way to producing for myself like apt-zip, or
/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html/ch3.html , but that gets the freshest
versions of everything, minus what you already have on cds, and is
different than jigdo, which is still for burning a whole set of cds.
One thing I learned is I can't use any of the apt- or dpkg- commands,
as they use the state of what is installed or not, not something I'm
concerned with.
Just updating what you already have installed means you'll never have
access to new kernel-images etc. We give a script to our well
networked friend who makes a CD for us, which we take back to modem
mountain, do a dist-upgrade with it, and keep it around in case we
want to install anything else in sid. [or sarge, etc, just modify my
script.]
Here is what I do so far:
$ awk '/^Package:/{p=$2};/^Filename/{f=$2};/^$/{print p"\t"f}' \
/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.linux.org.tw_debian_dists_sid*-i386_Packages|sort>remote_list
$ awk '/^Package:/{p=$2};/^Filename/{f=$2};/^$/{print p"\t"f}' \
/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%20SID*i386_Packages|sort>cd_list
$ comm -23 remote_list cd_list |cut -f2 >toget
$ sed 's#^#http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/#' toget
http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/pool/main/4/44bsd-rdist/44bsd-rdist_20001111-6_i386.deb
http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/pool/main/a/a2ps-perl-ja/a2ps-perl-ja_1.45-3_all.deb
http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/pool/main/a/abicheck/abicheck_1.0-1.1_all.deb
etc.
then this list is given to my friend who does wget and puts them on a
CD or two for me.
One concern is, as seen in man apt-get, "Note that the file name to
write to will not always match the file name on the remote
site!". Does this spell trouble? Do I have to look for colons in
version numbers and paste %3a into filenames still?
I don't have the fancy checks of apt-zip-list... but I can see how to
do them.
If he gives me a couple of CDs filled with .debs then I'm probably in
pretty good shape. perhaps i will instead give him a script to make
cdroms for apt-cdrom, using dpkg-scanpackages...
anyways, it's odd that the apt-zip and apt-get --print-uris don't have
a feature to 'get them all in case we want them later'.
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