On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:00:24AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > I got this reply off-list: > > On Sat, 2001-09-01 at 12:40, Thomas Bleicher wrote: > > I do: > > > > apt-get -qq --print-uris [upgrade | install <something>] > urls > > > > and then run my script on the file urls.
Now it has a name to ;)
$ ziplist.py urls
I added a bit interactivity this afternoon; you can now decide to create
the shell-scripts during the run -- or to put some huge packages on hold
before (dselect or dpkg). It's not very good tested, sorry.
> > When I come back with the filled zips, i just copy all the downloaded
> > files to /var/cache/apt/archives/. Then I can run "apt-get upgrade" and
> > when the archive is scanned, all packages are found and installed,
> > provided all have been downloaded successfully. If not, apt tells me
> > what is still missing and I can start again ;)
The biggest problem I see is, that wget will always create a file, even
if it could not be downloaded correctly; apt might get very confused,
when it encounters such a file (or does it recognise this case?).
You should check the downloads or modify the wget-lines to create a
log-file as well.
> This is what I did in the end without the Python script. I didn't want
> to copy 200 meg of debs into archives/
?? they will be copied there anyway. If you don't run
apt-get clean
or apt-get auto-clean
they will even stay there.
> and as the option to specify the archive directory didn't work for me,
> I tried symlinking the entire directory of downloaded debs into the
> archives.
Try this:
mv /var/cache/apt/archives /var/cache/apt/archives.backup
ln -s /your/directory /var/cache/apt/archives"
If you have some files in your archive that are needed for the upgrade,
apt will complain that they are missing and you'll have to get them
again (or copy from archives.backup).
> That also didn't work. :-( In the end I had to copy it but I'd
> prefer to have a directory on my spare disk which Apt used as the
> cache.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:tux $ll /var/cache/apt
total 6444
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Aug 1 20:26 archives ->
/usr/local/apt/archives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3360906 Sep 2 10:50 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3264856 Sep 2 10:50 srcpkgcache.bin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:tux $df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc1 94647 42150 47610 47% /
/dev/hdc2 197657 91579 95872 49% /var
/dev/hdc5 2479816 1263548 1090296 54% /usr
/dev/hdc6 2480824 1571884 782920 67% /usr/local
/dev/hdc7 3844584 1728788 1920500 48% /home
Something like this? Works perfectly here.
> Thomas, could you email me that script? It sounds like what I want to
> do, especially if I could get Dir::Cache::archive working.
See attachment. Sorry if you will get two copies, but I don't know if
I'll make it to the list.
Thomas
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