On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Thanks all for the replies. I checked out apt-zip, apt-offline, aptoncd, > CDD and apt-clone. None of them really suited my needs, as I want to > generate this repository automatically, and want to do a whole class of > target systems which will have a baseline set of packages installed. > > Anyway I've found it's pretty easy to roll my own using python-apt and > configuring apt to use alternate locations for the cache, dpkg status > file etc. I feed in the dpkg status file from my baseline install, a > sources.list and a list of packages I want to be installable, and I can > easily download the files. Then use apt-ftparchive to generate the > metadata and I'm done.
It would be great if you could publish your script, maybe it could be included in some package, like as an example in python-apt? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6Gdvzk33C=vjphf9-wvgdzapdxk8c5c+hsdiiptryl...@mail.gmail.com
