On 01/02/06 at 09:43 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:39:54AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Marc Haber: > > > I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to > > > testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a > > > host that doesn't have a local archive. > > > > With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in > > terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive > > metadata. AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space > > consumption shouldn't be an obstacle, either. > > Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf > syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system > without root privileges. Additionally, parsing the Sources file is > another challenge. And again additionally, I don't want to get alerts > just because my mirror is down or desynced.
Have a look at MultiDistroTools[0]. I use a custom apt config to be able to run apt-get update as normal user for different distributions. It should be easy to adapt it to do what you want. [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiDistroTools -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
