Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hello List > > I use apt-get as described in the offline.html guide meaning: I build a > wget script from the output of apt-get -qq --print-uris and so on. The > problem is, there are two other systems involved in this process: one > sun solaris machine, which I use to run wget on it, and a WinNT4 machine > to get the downloaded files via ftp to a zip disk (I know this is > ridiculous, but it's the only possibility for me, because the sun one > has no zip, the NT one has no wget...) > Well, the problem is, that some packages are named > packagexxx-1%3a-yyy.deb. Now, either solaris or NT has a problem with > the "%"-sign. I have to manually edit the wget-script so that I replace > every % by xxxxx, downlöoad the whole stuff, and then rename the single > packages from xxxxx back to %. This is a rather annoying procedure, for > dist-upgrades from unstable to unstable tend to change lots of packages. > > So enough of talking, here comes my idea of how to do it: Is there a > shell-script that can change the xxxxx'es in the downloaded file names > back to % (the script, I edit with emacs, this is no problem). > Unfortunately, I have no idea of shell scripting at all, so if someone > could tell me how to do it... > > Thanks for your help > > joerg >
Run the wget script on solaris and tar all files in one archive (e.g. packages.tar). If it's bigger than your zip: 'split -b 90m packages.tar pack' This will give you some files 'packaa', 'packab' ... which will all fit on a single zip media. Then get all those parts on the NT machine and take them home. At home, drink a nice cup of coffee while you copy the whole stuff on your linux machine. Put it all together by: 'cat packaa packab > packages.tar' # remember to list all parts Untar it and have fun .... Berthold
