Thanks for the info! I tried with your method, and it went pretty fast in doing the right thing. But then apt-get had a segmentation fault.
-----Original Message----- From: Wouter Verhelst [mailto:wou...@debian.org] Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 3:20 AM To: Matthew Palmer Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to find package name of a *.deb file? On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 09:15:01AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > [DO NOT Cc me on list replies, and knock off the top-posting] > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:55:36AM -0800, Weidong Li wrote: > > sudo apt-get -d install iceweasel=3.0.5-1 > > > > It downloads files and gives me dependency package lists. However, it > > does not download the correct versions of dependency packages - it > > downloads versions for x386 architecture, not for armel. > > > > What should I do to let apt-get know that all my packages should be for > > armel, not for x386? Or should I use a different tool to get the > > packages? > > apt-get is designed to manage packages on your running system only. You > need to download the package and it's dependencies by hand, and unpack them > by hand. Actually, apt-get *can* download packages for a different architecture, if you wish. If you're doing this, you'd also use an option that checks for installed packages on a different place than does the 'normal' apt, otherwise dependencies would be checked against the installed packages on your system. Something like this in a script should work: apt-get -o Apt::Architecture=armel -o Debug::NoLocking \ -o Dir::State::status=~/foo/var/lib/dpkg/status \ -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=~/foo/etc/apt/ \ -o Dir::Cache::pkgcache=~/foo/var/cache/apt/archives "$@" You'd then run that script like you run 'regular' apt-get. Note that you'll have to create apt's cache directories and config files, and that you'll also have to create an empty ~/foo/var/lib/dpkg/status file. If you forget one, apt will complain about the missing files, so creating them should be easy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
