On: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:21:24 +0100 Enrico Zini writes:
>
> Hello!
> As my modem internet connection is slow and (being in Italy)
> expensive, I would like to use apt to upgrade my system, but being
> myself the connection using a Zip disk to carry .deb files from our
> debian mirror at the university to home.
>
> Is there some way to know what is apt going to download, so that I
> can go, fetch them and plug them in?
apt-get --no-act upgrade
tells you the packages (without version number) that apt-get will
download. You will need some glue to combined the package name with
the filename, a simple exercise for a perl programmer.
Torsten
BTW: If you are unexperienced in writing such code I could assist you.
Here is some code for slurping in the package files as a start. Next
you need to call the above comand and print the filename for each
package which is output.
use strict;
use DirHandle;
my $dir = '/var/state/apt/lists';
my %Packages;
my $d = new DirHandle $dir or die "Readdir $dir: $!";
my $file;
while(defined ($file = $d->read)) {
# Skip stable
next if $file !~ /unstable/;
open IN, "<$dir/$file" or die "Read $dir/$file: $!";
my $package;
while(<IN>) {
/^Package: (.*)$/ and $package = $1;
/^Filename: (.*)$/ and $Packages{$package} = $1;
}
close IN;
}
print "$Packages{'3dchess'}\n";
print "$Packages{'gs-aladdin'}\n";
