i cannot imagine why this is usefull. care to give a use case?

I had downloaded a GB or more of binaries, and now for some reasons, I want
the source code of those binaries. Want to tweak them for max performance on
my machine(s)

There are 1400 binary deb and if I manually start downloading them, I will
become mad at the end of that exercise (heck what are computers supposed to
do then?? )


2009/11/12 Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>

> surreal wrote:
> > Is there any way of downloading source files without the binaries ??
>
> not with live-helper, and you'll never will, as it's not possible to do
> it without first bootstrapping.
>
> however, if you insist.. do it by hand. either bootstrap your target
> system or change your hosts systems /etc/apt/sources.list to point to
> the target distribution, expand the list of packages to their actual
> installed packages (depends and recommends, if wished), don't forget to
> add the packages that lh_chroot_linux-image is adding and apply the same
> mechanism to the final list of binary packages that lh_source_debian is
> doing.
>
> > I dont want to create a live cd but only get the source files of the
> > packages found in live helper lists.
>
> i cannot imagine why this is usefull. care to give a use case?
>
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