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? > > -- > Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist > Email: [email protected] > Internet: > http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/<http://people.panthera-systems.net/%7Edaniel-baumann/> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > > -- Harshad Joshi
