On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 13:06 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > jh> why would you just one specific package to be updated? > > Sorry I didn't explain more. Here's the situation ... > > I have an office machine, O, and a home machine, H both using > sarge/testing. O has a high-speed connection to the Internet, but H > doesn't. After "updating" O, I copy all the .deb files in > O:/var/cache/apt/archives to removable media and bring them home. > > Once home, I basically do a "dpkg -i *.deb" of the files copied from O. > (It's actually a bit more complicated due to dependencies ...) > > Herein lies the problem. There are packages I install/run on O (e.g., > 'mailman') that I do not want to install/run on H. However, if I > quickly do "dpkg -i *.deb" on H, it'll install *all* the .debs -- > including 'mailman'. > > Though I *could* write a script to accomplish what I want (i.e., > ensuring each package is present before upgrading), I thought there > might be an easier approach via a 'dpkg' command-line option (similar > to "rpm -F").
Why not just: # cp /cdrom/*deb /var/cache/apt/archives # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade Any debs that are already in H:/var/cache/apt/archives won't be re-downloaded. The caveat is that any relevant packages that have been moved into sarge in the interregnum will get downloaded. This way is a lot simpler, though. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "Whatever may be the moral ambiguities of the so-called demoratic nations and however serious may be their failure to conform perfectly to their democratic ideals, it is sheer moral perversity to equate the inconsistencies of a democratic civilization with the brutalities which modern tyrannical states practice." Reinhold Nieburhr, ca. 1940
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