Hello, I would like to talk to you about the option to add the offline functionality to apt-zip.
It is obvious that the problem is computing the dependencieson the connected machine, so I will talk about that. AFAICS, there were a few solutions proposed: 1 - use status data on the connected machine to handle dependencies using the debian tools there 2 - use exernal to handle dependencies (apt-computations website) starting from copied status info 3 - (newly added) use python2.4-apt/libapt-pkg-perl/auto-apt/anna to handle the dependency computation on the connected machine; the tool choice should be made according to the portability of the code and the code itself should be placed alongside with the fetch script Short analysis: 1) +no supplemental tools + will produce (highly probable) reliable results ans depndency handling - same architecture is need - the computers must use the same sources (maybe can be laxed) 2) + total independence of the connected OS type - needs a public service; - could generate security issues (cross site attacks) 3) + portable (as much as it is possible) + no that much to rewrite - portable code should be on the stick/media - current implementations might not that complete as libraries - might not be that portable as arch+OSes+OS variants are multiple - might depnd on binary tools -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
