Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the closest thing to what i want requires that you have apt-get on the > connected machine. i don't (it's a windows machine with wget). > > to repeat: i need to manually download the Packages.gz files from the > archives listed in sources.list, which isn't a problem. but what i don't > know how to do is make apt-get `read' those files an update itself so `apt-get > upgrade' uses the newer Packages.gz files.
Try apt-zip or apt-move (both in potato): $ apt-cache show apt-zip Package: apt-zip Version: 0.7 Priority: extra Section: admin Maintainer: Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/apt-zip_0.7.deb Size: 9204 MD5sum: aaae44048b9c8d6a5189cfb4ec6d6891 Description: Update a non-networked computer using apt and a removable media These scripts simplify the process of using dselect and apt on your Debian box. One generates a `fetch' script (supporting backends such as wget and lftp, in a modular extensible way) to be run on a host with better connectivity, check space constraints of you removable media, and then install the package on your Debian box. installed-size: 32 $ apt-cache show apt-move Package: apt-move Version: 3.0-8 Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: Gregory T. Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: awk, bc (>= 1.05a-6), dpkg-dev (>= 1.4.1.6) Suggests: rsync (>= 2.3.2-1) Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/apt-move_3.0-8.deb Size: 28450 MD5sum: 37202cc18f7c5d4183b23a49c16247cd Description: Move cache of Debian packages into a mirror hierarchy apt-move is used to move a collection of Debian package files into a proper archive hierarchy of the form debian/dists/... It is intended as a tool to help manage the apt-get(8) file cache, but could be configured to work with any collection of Debian packages. . Running apt-move periodically will assist in managing the resulting partial mirror by optionally removing obsolete packages, and creating valid local Packages.gz files. It can also optionally employ rsync(1) to build a partial or complete local mirror of a Debian binary distribution (including an ``installed-packages only'' mirror). installed-size: 77 Greetings, joachim
