Hello, Am Dienstag, den 15. Mai 2001 12:28:12 schrieb Joerg Johannes: > > 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.
Have you looked at the apt-zip-package?
> 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.
Solaris has no problem.
> 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.
Have you thought of tar-ing the files on Solaris and save the tar-file
on zip, so the inferior OS wouldn't see the files?
MfG
bmg
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