#include <hallo.h> * Gertjan van Zwieten [Thu, Aug 19 2004, 12:01:12PM]:
> I admit I was not aware of this perl one-liner you're referring to. I Such as... for x in *.deb; do perl -e 'read(STDIN,$a,2000); $a=~s,^(.*?)\r?\n\r?\n,,ms; print $a, <STDIN>' < $x > pure/$x; done > didn't find any of this on the website, which by the way seems to be > currently offline. Still, even with such script some problems remain. > For instance apt-cacher's cache can't be easily turned into an offline > cache, which can be useful when doing a fresh install. With replicator > it's as simple as generating a local Packages.gz with dpkg-scanpackages. Okay. But I dont's see it as a disadvantage, and even then it would be relatively easy to modify apt-cacher to use separate files for package contents and HTTP headers. Regards, Eduard. -- "After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks learning how to make a new folder, it became obvious that "intuitive" mostly means "what the writer or speaker of intuitive likes". - Bruce Ediger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], on X the intuitiveness of a Mac interface